Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, and therefore no need for the propaganda. India has banned movies like "The Red Danube," and rejected newsreels that showed Stalin's death in "somewhat capitalistic" light. The French kept out "Hell and High Water" until certain controversial figures were eliminated, and Finland has recently banned "The Peking Express" and "Night People...
Dean Pike's defense of birth control [Jan. 31] may be ingenious, but it is not Episcopal. The Church has always taken a somewhat uncompromising view on the matter of depriving others of life-which is the express purpose of birth control . . . Dean Pike refers to the sex act as "the sacrament of unity . . ." According to the Episcopal Church, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Grace, in a sense, is that which conforms us to God-the Creator. What grace can there be in an act from which every creative element...
After the 1917 Revolution, there was a fervor within Russian intellectual circles for a "new" literature which would express the revolutionary spirit and cast away the worn-out or "decadent" works of the past. One of the first groups which gained prominence was the Futurists. Spreading not only in literature but also in art, Futurism launched an attack on all bonds with the past. It attacked the vocabulary, as well as the long-standing customs of the people...
...press conference last week, President Eisenhower was asked about General Ridgway's criticisms. The President spoke just as bluntly: "General Ridgway was questioned in the Congress as to his personal convictions, and, naturally, he had to express them...
...December Les Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals) won France's fattest literary prize, the Goncourt. Novelist Albert Camus and Author de Beauvoir's great and good friend, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, are thinly disguised principals. "These new Platos," one critic wrote, "talk slang like street cleaners, express themselves as sewer diggers no longer express themselves...