Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malcolm Muggeridge, who got the assignment long before the Queen's visit was planned. He described the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace as characters in "a royal soap opera," urged that the institution be refurbished to keep up with changing times. This "shocking attack," as London's Sunday Express called it, prompted the BBC to schedule, then cancel, an appearance by Muggeridge, who is a TV favorite; threw some doubt on the renewal of his TV contract, and also led the Sunday Dispatch to cancel a weekly Muggeridge series that it had just announced...
Princeton's attitude exemplifies that of the modern agnostic liberal in today's academic community when brought face to face with a real nonconformist who has convictions and the courage to express them...
...vaudeville joke In addition to being the butt of tired jokes, Newark (pop. 465.600) used to be a sprawling municipal Skid Row choking in its own web of rail lines, express high ways and traffic-snarled streets. The sun, rising above Manhattan's skyscrapers ten miles away, glinted off broken bottles in the ring of slums pressing in on Newark's business district. A daily flood of commuters poured in-doubling the population-then poured back into the suburbs. At night those who remained in the city saw the streets grow sullen and creepy...
Delicate Task. Philip could not model himself on his great-great-grandfather even if he would. He has no inclination to effacement, and even if he had a desire for power, the throne no longer commands it. Under the tacit terms of the constitution, Elizabeth is not allowed to express an opinion contrary to that of her parliamentary majority...
...Stephen Tyler and 14 other U.S. innocents abroad-part of the 45 students who thumbed their passports at the State Department and AWOLed off to Red China last summer-got together with that jolly old minstrel, Premier Chou Enlai, for a clap-hands songfest. But as the Trans-Siberian Express chugged back to Moscow last week, the party line began to fray. Complained self-described "Rightist" Tyler at the U.S. embassy: because he had tried to dampen their enthusiasm for Red China, two of his fellow travelers-for-the-truth had bopped him on the nose...