Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cause of the messy melee was the discovery of anti-Moscow propaganda in the compartments of the 19-man Red Chinese train crew and the 73 students aboard the Moscow-Peking express. When four Russian border guards and customs officials tried to confiscate the documents, mobs of Red Chinese defiantly blocked the aisles. Attempting to fight their way through the crowd, the hapless Soviet officials were pummeled, scratched and bitten; finally they were locked into a compartment for five hours...
...Russians were able to force the Chinese train-and its rambunctious passengers-back over the frontier into Mongolia, and with a sigh of relief, Soviet trainmen chugged off toward Moscow in the replacement train. It might well be the last trip in a long time for the Moscow-Peking express. The Kremlin dashed off a scathing official protest to Peking over the "provocative violation of elementary sanitary and hygienic standards," then peremptorily suspended service on the route until further notice...
...ways that South Africa's hapless blacks and coloreds have to express their dismay at apartheid is to boo vigorously the all-white home teams at international sports contests. In 1955 the unpatriotic favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...
...disorderly, insalubrious studios. The sun costs less than a battery of lights. A borrowed camera, some cheap film, a friend's apartment, friends to play the parts, and above all the faith, the rage of the cinema-the rage to storm the barricade, to use this way of expression-the way of the future, the art of the future. A revolution of intentions is beginning. No longer do we trust in the old labels, the established themes. To express ourselves! To be free, free of prejudice, free of the old cult of technique, free of everything, to be madly...
...result is the most engaging of travel books. It is mercifully free from useful information, unless the term can be held to include such items as: that sheep will follow you into bars if you blow certain notes on a Spanish bagpipe; that you get more consideration from European Express officials by pretending to be responsible for 100 unwell divinity students than by being actually in charge of one healthy priest; that conductors of two-price tours of Europe are expected to spend their time with the first-class guided tourists but find their girls with the second class; that...