Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more sweeping indictment of the French army's unenviable position is that of a reserve officer who served six months in Algeria, won the Croix Militaire for the Algerian campaign: Lieut. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, starbright editor of the weekly L'Express. Servan-Schreiber tells, in dramatic narrative form (a legalistic precaution against military inquiry), of a French patrol which is ordered to get the killers of a pro-French Arab, finds a truck with five Arabs in it, and kills all five on suspicion. That night in the officers' mess, Captain Julienne (newly arrived in Algeria...
...Though there were few instances of deliberate distortion during Britain's 1955 general-election campaign, a University of Manchester study of the major London dailies showed that the biggest-circulation newspapers, the Laborite Daily Mirror and the right-wing Daily Express, gave election material less than 6% of their total news space. *Noting with approval that Churchill had himself won a $14,000 libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever...
Planning to return to Israel with his paintings, and to take new root there, Kovarsky hopes to get new inspiration from the Yemenites. Says he: "These people have in their mind an image. My desire is to find a language that will express their imagination. To be in contact with these primitive people will be for me now like getting to a fresh spring...
...national difference, what good scholars have in common is much more important than the differences in their cultural background." He feels himself very much of an American, and he says, though he is overly modest about his command of the language, that he finds English a happier means to express his thoughts than his native German. "English forces one into exact and disciplined thought and German is very prone to cloudy thinking...
...Patients handicapped by the loss of speech may express themselves through a book called Silent Spokesman, by Wayland W. Lessing, a Chicago welfare worker. By pointing at the book's pictures and diagrams a patient can flash, among other messages, what friends he wants to see, where he has pain, and such complicated thoughts as: "I want a 21-inch television set." Cost of the book...