Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countless contributions to his Alma Mater, we, the members of the Harvard Athletic Staff, express our deepest respect, admiration, and affection for William J. Bingham...
...dressed poultry yearly from Gambia." The idea was that cheap native (nonunion) labor could grow feed for the chicks and harvest the eggs, but trouble hatched early. An American appointed to head the project got $14,000 to buy hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced, the government authorized spending of more scarce dollars for American grain. British poultry farmers protested because their production is curtailed...
...opposed to a 'free flow of ideas' and agree . . . that 'even the most extreme ideas should not be excluded from discussion.' I believe that Mr. Fraenkel has a right to express publicly his opinions...
...Second, Ives had set out to express "the musical feelings of the Connecticut country around here in the 1890s the music of the country folk." "To one of his rare visitors he explained that "there's not much to say about the symphony . . . It is full of the tunes they sang and played then." A composer who experimented with polytonality (writing in two or more keys simultaneously) before Stravinsky even thought about Firebird (1910), Ives somewhat whimsically deeded to set his Yankee tunes "in counter point with some Bach tunes," as "a sort of bad joke." Joke...
Communism, Hydie has been rootless ever since she gave up Catholicism. Hydie finds her substitute in an affair with Fyodor, whose lovemaking makes her feel "as if she had been run over by an express train." When his ruthlessness and a revelation of his mission show her the true nature of Communism (he is working up a Paris purge list against the day when his masters take over France), she shoots him, but merely wounds him. Fyodor is s.ent back to Russia to avoid a scandal, and Hydie gets ready to go back to the U.S. War is about...