Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state-controlled textile factory at Nazilli, Eyuboglu still labors long and cheerfully in his dank ground-floor studio down an alley from the city's main street. He sells most of his pictures for under $50, and according to a friend, "if you express a special interest in something he has done, he'll insist on giving it to you." Eyuboglu's ambitions far outsoar commercial success. Says he: "My goal is to evolve an art as unique as Persian miniatures and Matisse, and as Turkish as our coffee and tobacco and figs...
...conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming the government for letting India "drive a wedge between Britain...
...England, the Mirror's lusty coverage was countered by the usually sensational Daily Express, which omitted the report and wrote instead about "Our Sex-Sodden Newspapers." In Italy, most papers gave it only brief, rather bored play, or ignored it altogether. Sophisticated Paris simply yawned. Said Alfred Charles Kinsey, vacationing in California: "My next lecture...
...encouraging notes about France's discouraging situation is the fact that some Frenchmen themselves are getting worried about things. Thundered the new conservative weekly, L'Express, edited by able young Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber...
...with the English), residents of the north found the G.N.R. a royal road to the unrationed paradise of the south, where fresh eggs and fresh meat were plentiful, and Guinness only seven-pence the pint (it cost twice as much m Belfast). The G.N.R.'s crack Belfast-Dublin Express came to be known as the Smuggler's Special because of the many travelers who rode south in their old clothes and returned in spanking new threads from Dublin's best tailors. One traveler who made the changeover in the train lavatory was embarrassed, after throwing...