Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...
...some old notes before generals. I came across an almost verbatim episode of a radio series I followed each Wednesday night last summer. "He Walks Alone," the adventures of Bob Barkeley, was one of thase rare programs (less rare these days, I understand) that is not afraid to express a point of view--specifically, the American point of view--without mincing words. To me, "Communism" was just a strange foreign-sounding name in the newspapers until Bob Barkeley began to make the headlines come alive, the day's editorials sound wishy-washy. If this sample, which seems as timely...
Bill McCurdy, who has been appointed to succeed Jaakko next year, was shocked to hear of Mikkola's death. "I came to know him quite well in two years. Words can't express how wonderful a man he was. To see a man as hardy and vigorous as he go so suddenly is a terrible experience...
...wish to put your mind at rest on the matter of my "rocking chair and divan" (letter of 21 May). I must express my surprise when your caretaking people considered them "a hazard to maids." You see they came into my possession this fall in virtually their present condition and have been around the University eight or ten years. I can testify that they have seen almost daily service this year for "rocking and diving," and neither a fatality or other hazard-caused casualty has resulted. This you see, is my principal amazement: if my friends and I have survived...
Anabel Handy's Late completes the Advocate's compelement of stories, Miss Handy deals in a man's reminiscence of a childhood incident; and while she obviously wants this incident to express a symbolic decision, I must confess that I can't see it. I thing that the author's involved verbiage has obscured the point, at least...