Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spirited. Salinger also hits hard at Murphy's links to Goldwater. He accuses Murphy of having supported Dr. Fred Schwarz's ultra-right Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, charges that Murphy is an "archconservative of the same stripe as Senator Goldwater, but hasn't the courage to express his honest convictions...
...most remarkably prophetic thinkers, an Aquinas of the atomic era. For Teilhard was not only a scientist who studied the world's past. He was also a philosopher-mystic who saw man evolving toward the ultimate encounter with what Teilhard, ever groping for new ways to express ancient truth, called the "Omega point." Other men have called...
...fully effective, say psychologists, a slogan should express a single idea in seven words or less. "It is a psychological fact," says Harvard's Gordon Allport, "that seven is the normal limit of rote memory." (Example: telephone numbers.) Whether plugging cat food or a candidate, sloganeers lean heavily on such verbal devices as alliteration ("Korea, Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody...
...candidate. Wallace's support, he suggested, had not come from a sudden change of heart on the part of people who voted regularly, but as a result of what he called the "out from under the rocks effect"--people who had always disliked Negroes now had a chance to express their dislike with their votes...
...journey had begun on the hour when the sun was not yet overhead, and by half-hour of the same day, I finally reached the sixth and final plateau. I cannot express the condition I was in: I had been transformed by the journey, cleansed and purified by the perspiration that had swept over me. With pounding heart and light, hurried breaths, I opened the door and gazed upon the smiling Assemblage, then collapsed with ecstacy at attaining the Vision of my Section Man; and saw far below me Lowell Lec, infinitely plateau I saw glass doors right and left...