Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinter's juxtaposition of these three oddly assorted men in a room serves to generalize their dilemma. But in showing his characters failing to get across to each other, failing to see any reflections of themselves in the world, Pinter also seems to express reverence and amazement toward the mysterious internal drives that keep them going...
...thin slice of French Milquetoast in appearance, Bonnard fell into the celebrated company of Vuillard, Vallotton and Maillol. Gauguin was chief prophet, telling them to express what they saw in colors straight from the tube. If a shadow had a bluish look, said he, the painter should use pure ultramarine. A group called the Nabis, or prophets, gathered and asserted that the imitation of three dimensions was less vital than a blatant arrangement of lines and colors. That was art; the other was slavish copying. Bonnard became "the very Japanese Nabi" for his fascination with oriental asymmetry, ascending perspective...
...Harold Pinter and Director Jack Clayton (Room At The Top) show proper scorn for the easy tricks of melodrama. Their unsentimental aim is to take a marriage apart and nail up the bleeding pieces for honest scrutiny. Often as not, they succeed, finding lethal words and crisp images to express the timeless battle that Author Mortimer describes as "men and women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion...
...silly season had barely started when Illinois' Tom Green shocked speed-jaded Bonneville buffs by piloting Walt Arfons' Wingfoot Express to a new record of 413 m.p.h. It lasted just three days-until Walt's brother Art, 38, clocked 434 m.p.h. in his jet-powered Green Monster. That was enough to bring Old Bonneville Hand (407 m.p.h. in 1963) Craig Breedlove hustling back to the flats for another try in his three-wheeled Spirit of America...
...Research Committee did not wish to express University endorsement of the programs of religious or political groups. This is not to say such groups do not carry on admirable work. We continually emphasize that ANY charity a student chooses may receive his (or her) contribution through the Drive. We have not taken it upon ourselves to judge charities worthy or unworthy, nor have we decided to choose for others the charities which will receive their donations. We are simply "recommending" and "suggesting" charities with which students may be unfamiliar...