Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transatlantic tribute the London Express predicted the future better than most surprised Americans: "The result will be a new [U.S.] drive to catch up and pass the Russians in the sphere of space exploration. Never doubt for a moment that America will be successful...
Someone asked about editors' criticism of candidate writings. "What if you disagree with a criticism?" The impeccable dresser answered again. "Well," he said, pulling at his lip, "humor is very nebulous and editors might even express contradictory opinions. But if you're broadminded you should be able to learn something from any comment. If you should sometime find a really asinine comment, it's quite all right to express your disagreement, but with tact." He smiled. "Yes, use tact." A few of the candidates smiled...
...begin to express my disagreement with Governor Orval Faubus' actions of late, but inciting prejudices because of a man's background can certainly be no more commendable than inciting prejudices because of a man's skin pigmentation...
...they doing the right thing for Prince Charlie?" wondered the Sunday Express, but the question did not seem to get much of a rise out of Britons. Sending Charles to Cheam was not quite the prescription of that young critic of royalty. Lord Altrincham, who "would have liked to have seen him enter a state-run primary school." But it was certainly more democratic than the old royal custom that prescribed for all heirs to the throne a private education under governess and tutors in the palace schoolroom...
...painted with the richness of Rubens, burned into his memory. In the postwar years of angry anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics. (Today Grosz, an American citizen, lives on Long Island, N.Y., paints landscapes, nudes, and insect parables that "express the emptiness of man.") Oskar Kokoschka was shot and bayoneted through the chest on the Russian front, but survived. Seven years after the war he was jaunting about Europe, capturing in London Bridge (opposite), a bird's-eye view of what he still calls "one of the finest rivers...