Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although frequent use of capitals of express The Big Ideas is annoying and the prose often cumbersome, the primary fault of the book is its over-simplification. To present the character of Bogard, Frede resorts to a modern-day equivalent of good and bad angels. Bogard's thoughts are conveyed through two of his mental creations named Slide Rule and The Third Person. Calculation and commitment contend for the sould of the present generation...
...YORK'S Democratic Governor William Averell Harriman, 66, is another multimillionaire who took the high road to politics. His famed father, E. H. Harriman, a onetime messenger boy, parlayed imagination and aggressiveness into a $5 billion empire (Union Pacific Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale...
...deeply in love with him ever to marry anyone else." "My belief," says Barrymaine, without unearthing any new evidence, "is that Princess Margaret would still like to marry Peter Townsend," although "at the moment the religious and political issues remain insurmountable." But London's big, bold Daily Express had another view, grandly reported that Margaret had found Peter's visits "sometimes rather trying," and was unhappy over "the way things turned out" after the romance had cooled...
...feel that students at Harvard should be given a chance to express their own views in a referendum, and not be led by the...policies of the president of the Harvard Student Council...
...below the line of Mason and Dixon enter the Harvard freshman class. They arrive in Cambridge as eager and awed as any. Some, of course, arrive with a chip on their shoulder and with a few choice words concerning Little Rock. These few have ample--indeed, abundant--opportunity to express their defense of segregation, Faubus, and States Rights, for they will find roommates equally eager to argue...