Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modesty and courage in the present U.S. mood (or lack of mood) might also be a numbness in the body social. Being a sportswoman, Mrs. Clark did not mean to play down the zest and pride of achievement, or to mute the challenge of possible failure. Restraint of expression is different from lack of response and inability to express...
Most articulate of Premier Mendès-France's young braintrusters is J. J. Servan-Schreiber, 30, editor of the weekly political review L'Express. A U.S.-trained fighter pilot who served, with a Free French squadron in the Ninth U.S. Air Force, Servan-Schreiber was friend and counselor of France's Premier long before he came to power. This article was written by him for TIME...
...your Judgments & Prophecies column, four writers were able to express their opinions on certain subjects without using pronouns. The fifth "writer," namely Mrs. F.D.R., used six "I's" and one "me" to tell your readers how revolting she thinks the H-bomb...
...than Israel, more than any other city in history. Tercentenary orators and writers happily bat up statistics, e.g., as a group the Jews supply twice their proportionate share of the nation's college students and only half their share of the jailbirds. But, beyond anything that statistics could express, the Jews' life under America's sheltering trees was a new experience after their long wanderings. Writes Historian Oscar Handlin: "Looking backward from 1954, the three hundred years of Jewish life in the U.S. seem an adventure in freedom...
...introverted mood of the picture is uncannily enhanced by the musical score. The cold, otherworldly picking of the samisen snips the threads of reality one by one, and the audience floats free among music that tries to express the intimate noises of the toiling spirit. The photography never once permits this mood to falter. Even the most violent scenes are dissolved in a meditative mist, like terrors in the mind of a sage. The moviegoer has the sense of living in a classic Japanese watercolor or of walking on a world that is really a giant pearl...