Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor backward fellow, is tied to the convention of idiosyncratic characters with names (which help distinguish them from other characters). So, although the poetry frequently wanders off the edge of strict meaning and leaves one a trifle bewildered, one is always bolstered by the thought that the ideas being expressed have a definite relationship with the character who is expressing them, and that he is expressing them primarily because they mean something to him and only secondarily because they may have general significance. Precisely the opposite is the case with the Brecht play: the characters do not speak as individuals...
...KNOW HOW YOU PEOPLE DO IT, HOW YOU SO CONSISTENTLY EXPRESS MY EXACT ATTITUDE ON THE WORLD SITUATION. "THE U.S. GETS A POLICY" [TIME, FEB. 26] is STATESMANSHIP...
...syndicated punditing, Columnist Walter Lippmann last week let readers in on a handy trick of his trade. "No one can have been writing for newspapers for a long time," he wrote, "without being fully aware of how much safer it is to prophesy disaster than to venture to express a hope. It is safe to be gloomy. If one prophesies disaster and it happens, one has been a true prophet. And if it does not happen, one is readily forgiven and may even suggest that but for the warning the disaster would have happened...
...would not take care of anything that is not covered by the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a crime to advocate overthrow of the government. "But," said Mrs. Ross, "we are not entitled to deny any group a place on the ballot, or the right to express their opinions...
...none of these devices proves successful for you, let me tell you what to do with your car. I express my appreciation to the clerk in the Cambridge Police traffic department who told...