Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your cryptic but perceptive Oct. 28 review of Monica Baldwin's The Called and the Chosen. I would like to express a few deep-rooted convictions on these notorious "ex-nuns" and "ex-priests" who, through some psychological guilt complex, delight in tearing to shreds the consecrated cloisters and convents they had no right to enter in the first place. As an ex-nun, I am thoroughly aware that anyone can make a mistake about his or her vocation in life. But why, in Heaven's name, do so many feel impelled to take up a poisoned...
...often worked a seven-day week. His. ministry handled 13,382 labor disputes; only 13 developed into strikes. Both labor and management call him a square shooter, approve his candidacy. He also helped write the successful Mexican-U.S. agreement on control of border-jumping "wetbacks," and might well express his admiration for Mexico's northern neighbor were it not that by local tradition such sentiments are political suicide...
Little more than a year ago, the name of self-taught Colin Wilson, then 25, got on British intellectuals' lips; today, it gets on their nerves. The critical cheers that greeted The Outsider turned to catcalls upon sight of its sequel. Religion and the Rebel. Flicked the Daily Express's Nancy Spain: "If civilization needs a new prophet, it will take more than the Boy Colin...
...final grievous error is made in the interpretation of Dewey's theory of value. He did say that value was growth, meaning by that that the good life is being endlessly challenged . . . But this principle was translated into a complete lack of discipline for youth. Let them express themselves, it was said . . . only then will they grow...
...Poon went on to attack the virility of the average Princeton man by including a section on fashions at Princeton. A quote from it reads, "Men at Princeton express their taste in lingerie by being oh so exact in details," lisps Mr. T. C. Spark, voted the best dressed man in Princeton...