Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knauer, though, will probably have the last word. Nixon himself telephoned her to express approval. Recalling days long ago, Nixon almost recited an ode to the hot dog. "Stick to your guns, Virginia," he said. "I'm behind you 100%. I came from humble origins. Why, we were raised on hot dogs and hamburgers. We've got to look after the hot dog." It may not have sounded like Keats, but to millions of hot-dog-loving Americans, it undoubtedly sang just as sweetly...
...Allow me to express my incomprehension at a society that 1) condones, indeed in some ways encourages, premarital sex for girls (TIME-Harris Poll), 2) hastens to condemn as "women of easy morals" (BEHAVIOR) those of them who were not careful enough and became unwed mothers, and 3) makes news of the "soft bulge under [Vanessa Redgrave's] floppy white pants" and "the Italian actor who fathered the child but whom she feels no need to marry" (PEOPLE...
...Wednesday, you make the move from whatever coal cellar the Registrar's Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 (or the Geological Lecture Hall), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and thensome. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
What has revealed the insufficiencies of this structure has been the arrival of a remarkable student generation many of whose members share with their peers elsewhere an enormous dissatisfaction with the world in which they now find themselves. These dissatisfactions express themselves quite differently among different students and by no means affect the entire student community. The expressions of discontent run the gamut from a cultural "hippie" rebellion to extreme political radicalism. Politically concerned students brought up to trust their leaders and to expect good will and progress from them, have in the recent years undergone an experience which...
...deliberate interference with academic freedom and freedom of speech (including not only disruption of a class but also interference with the freedom of any speaker invited by any section of the University community to express his views...