Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down Eureka Street announcing the opera performances like town criers. Opening day saw square dances in front of the opera house, and a surrey with the fringe on top conveyed dignitaries to the ceremonies. The nostalgically inclined can bucket out to deserted mines in Jeeps, watch a pony-express ride, or stare at The Face on the Barroom Floor, a new face commissioned to please the tourists who, in turn, prefer to believe that it is the 19th century original. Despite the diverting hoopla, some 27,000 opera lovers are buying seats this season to hear those authentic old Western...
...fireman still rides along in the cab, doing no necessary work. The pay scale of many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that an engineer on a fast express may get $39.95 for four hours' work while his counterpart on a slow freight may get $34.33 for ten hours...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan candidly admitted to the Daily Express that "the young voter is bored with me" and that the "young ministers I put in a year ago may want to get rid of the old gentleman at the top." During the height of the scandal, said Mac, it was "touch and go" for several days on his "chucking it all in." Added Mac: "If it had not been for my wife and loyal staff here, I don't think I could have got through. But I soon decided that there was one essential duty to perform...
...point denunciation of Soviet policy. Although the Soviets themselves refused to publish it, Moscow complained last week that Chinese agents handed out the document in cities from Odessa to Leningrad and even in the atomic research center of Dubna, near Moscow. Chinese crews on the Peking-Moscow express scattered bundles of the manifesto through coach windows, used the train's public-address system to read the Chinese charges to the captive Soviet audience...
...Moore laments that she "never knew anyone who had a passion for words who had as much difficulty in saying things as I do." Boris Pasternak (described as looking "at the same time like an Arab and his horse") believes it is "no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated." Venerable Ezra Pound, 77, "stuck" and unable to finish his epic Cantos, says, "The question is. am I dead?" Katherine Anne Porter gloomily concludes, "Misunderstanding and separation are the natural conditions...