Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franco government had screened and selected all candidates. Voters (i.e., heads of families) were not even free to stay away from the rigged poll. Lest the people express disapproval by abstaining, the government reminded them of an old electoral law: whoever fails to fulfill his duty to vote is liable to such penalties as a raise in his taxes, a cut in his salary-even disqualification for life from public office. Another, even more compelling, warning was given on the radio: those who fail to vote risk loss of the two most treasured documents that Spaniards possess: food and tobacco...
Visiting in Montreal last week, Lord Beaverbrook, 72, gave some depressing figures on the present-day economics of publishing in Britain. Of some $2,200,000 which his Daily Express (circ. 4,200,000) earned last year, the government took $1,400,000 in taxes before dividends, then collected all but sixpence on every pound paid to stockholders. Beaverbrook, who owns nearly three-fourths of the stock, ended up with $16,800 for his pains...
...Review: "The abstract artist . . . in his search for ultimate purity has achieved a kind of auto-castration, and in so doing he has made himself sterile. The forms and colors with which he 'animates' his canvas can never link themselves to his visual experience; they can only express his visual imagination. That thrilling orgasm in which a Titian or a Fra Angelico can make the visible world his own and beget a work of art that combines the essence of himself with the essence of the place and the time he lives in, that miracle is denied...
Copland explained that the "compulsion" of the artist to compose resulted from "his basic need to express himself." Music is universal, he added, "because the world discovers itself through its artists...
Three Republican presidential prospects -Dwight Eisenhower, Earl Warren and Robert Taft-are running ahead of Harry Truman in public popularity, the Gallup poll reported last week. The poll's method was to ask voters to express a choice between Truman and each of the three. Ike led Truman 64% to 28%(rest undecided) Warren ran 55-33 ahead of Truman. Taft's margin was narrow...