Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messianic zeal. Yet in office he was a superb politician of maneuver-good at the back-room deal, the clever compromise that resolved disputes but settled no issues. In his four years as President, he had miraculously survived 35 major and innumerable minor crises. Against his countrymen's express wishes, he imposed austerity on Argentina as the only way to right the foundering economy, and seemed to be making it stick. He also knew how to play, to the final moment of drama, the risky game of defying Argentina's military leaders, who have not fought...
...Great Britain, where purveyors to Her Majesty supply the royal household with everything from Scotch to kilts, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook and his three newspapers have provided an .unwelcome oversupply of at least one commodity: criticism. Beaverbrook's papers (Daily Express, Sunday Express, Evening Standard}, with a combined circulation of 8,800,000, have taken the royal family to task for spending too much money, sniped at Prince Philip for churlishness, and gleefully taken off after those natural targets, Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. John Gordon, editor and crusty columnist of the Sunday Express, congratulated Prince Philip...
...become highly sensitive to the Beaverbrook press's constant highlighting of the expenses of his trips. Last week the prince blew up. At a press reception in Rio de Janeiro in the midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious newspaper." On the Ramparts. To Philip's immediate defense sprang the Conservative Member of Parliament from Solihull, Sir Martin Lindsay. A sheaf of papers in his hand and blood...
Perkins declared that the importance of the student applications lies not in the distribution of the Freshman class, but in "certain human values" that are derived from giving students a chance to express their preferences. He stated that he believes freshmen are much happier under the preference system than they would be under an arbitrary machine selection process such as that employed at Yale...
Misled by Metaphor. Jesus' roughhewn peasant tongue was Aramaic, a language akin to classical Hebrew. The peculiar quality of Aramaic forced Jesus to think in certain ways. Unlike Greek or Latin, it has few specific words to express philosophic concepts; most abstract ideas can only be suggested by concrete metaphors, which have often been misinterpreted in translation. When Jesus, for example, used the phrase from Mosaic law, "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," it did not mean-as untutored readers of the King James version might assume-that justice demands violent revenge for violent...