Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first fiercely opposed, but are now coming around. They are enticed by the wider European market, convinced that since Britain produces more per acre and per man than any nation in Europe, they will more than hold their own. With the single exception of Lord Beaverbrook's Express, the British press is enthusiastically pro-Common Market, and most editorialists reproach Macmillan for his hesitancy...
...surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
...Barbecue Team. To win industrial clients, A.D.L. keeps the jobs it does for them secret until they request publicity, will not even admit it has ever worked for a company unless the company gives express permission. To avoid the suspicion that it might use information gleaned from one client to benefit another, Little will take no job if it has ever worked for a competitor on a similar task...
More important, Berry's paper has a generous Sabbath dose of straight news-to the amazement of Fleet Street, which has long been satisfied that little happens on Saturday. This month, after a gunman shot three London bobbies and then handed the story-by telephone-to the Sunday Express, the Sunday Telegraph collected information from eyewitnesses and Scotland Yard, stitched a story that made the Express's account (1 TRAP WANTED MAN ON THE TELEPHONE) sound like a Beaverbrook promotion...
This is the latest exposition of U.S. fiction's post-Socratic theorems: Find Thyself and Express Thyself. From Madison Avenue to Greenwich Village, from suburbia to Sunset Boulevard, the heroes of unnumbered novels are digging for their treasured psyches. In most instances, there is no treasure worth unearthing, all of which leads to another popular precept: Pity Thyself...