Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Pride. Above all, Japan itself is still ambivalent about playing a strong international role. By and large, the Japanese still dread the prospect of rearmament, which is the only means by which their great economic power can express itself as a political power. But amid unprecedented prosperity and new national pride, the Japanese are gradually beginning to understand the responsibilities that go with leadership. And they are learning that all great powers must somehow create an atmosphere in which they will be accepted as leaders...
...Standin. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., the son of a New York Central conductor, John Dennis Patrick O'Brian showed early signs of an incisive critical taste. Soon after he joined the Buffalo Courier-Express as a cub reporter, O'Brian was assigned to audit a performance of the local philharmonic orchestra. Offended by a guest appearance of some juvenile accordionists, O'Brian took the orchestra so severely to task that the incident became a civic cause celebre. When the orchestra changed hands shortly thereafter, O'Brian, with obvious satisfaction, claimed part of the credit...
...NOVA EXPRESS by William S. Burroughs. 187 pages. Grove...
...showing himself poised in a scream. All the features of the face in this self-portrait work together to vent this scream--all except the eyes. The drawn muscles of the face, the stretched mouth, the twisted lips and the lines in the forehead leading down past the nose--express a sensitive adolescent's wild and frustrated response to a confusing world. But the eyes are open and alert, as if Beckmann is seeing himself apart from himself, viewing his face as a mask. He captures a vision of himself, not "through a glass darkly, but face to face, even...
...most difficult issue" raised by the Doty Report, Ford said, is whether the present tripartite division of General Education should be dropped for the bipartite division. Although he did not express a direct opinion on the proposal, Ford noted that a realignment of the Gen Ed program would "force fields that haven't decided what they are to make up their minds...