Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's rare quarrels between the monarchy and the masses. Flying off on a three weeks' vacation in Antigua, the princess and her husband traveled by commercial airliner-but had the entire first-class section barred to other passengers. Commented Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express: "Another little touch of apartheid to ensure that the democratic idea is not carried too far." Britons were also irked by reports that a new hotel abuilding near Kensington Palace has been forced to reduce its height by several floors so the royal couple will not be observed by penthouse peepers...
...dress, a fur stole across her shoulders and crossed the border in a friend's car. Her husband had been given permission to make a brief visit to the Hamburg Opera. Heinrich turned the key on the apartment and all their possessions, next morning boarded the Hamburg Express. Last week Heinrich sat proudly in the third row of the Hannover Opera House watching his wife give a startlingly vivid performance in Alban Berg's Lulu. Coloratura Carroll's flight had ended in the beginning of a fine new career...
...seems strange and slightly ridiculous that you should express special discomfort for the Congo's savagery in the same issue in which you have a certain "French Flower" asking whether it is Christian to torture one's enemies, and concluding that it is. I cannot muster any greater horror for the African style of madness than for that of Western culture. Plastic bombs seem to be better mutilators than do knives...
...such a forum functions properly only in an atmosphere where the free expression of ideas--including ideas that are critical of the status quo, unpopular ideas--is encouraged. Of course it requires forbearance to grant freedom of expression to students hardly dry behind the ears, who may use this privilege to question the motives and abilities of distinguished scholars and educators. Of course it may demand patience beyond the ordinary to concede that the student critic--however wrong-headed he may be--should be permitted to express his opinions...
...lost sight of his first responsibility, which is the education of the young. And the young are a troublesome, feisty lot. They will explore the frontiers of knowledge, and sometimes venture far beyond, instead of being content to be indoctrinated with the safe and tried. They will express new and revolutionary notions. They will be critical and altogether disrespectful of their older and so much wiser mentors...