Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sciences 2 are "the most important pedagogical device in my course." His section men, Michael Tanzer and Norman Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English literature, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing the act of writing to be the most important...
...Wilson and Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower had gone to Europe before him, President Kennedy went to Paris and Vienna with the express diplomatic purpose of winning friends and influencing enemies. In his luck-starred political career, John Kennedy had often handled that sort of challenge with smooth, winning assurance?but never before had he faced such a difficult friend as France's Charles de Gaulle, or such an unpredict able enemy as the Soviet Union's Khrushchev. As he carefully told the country beforehand, Kennedy's European rendezvous with history were not intended for strategic decision or diplomatic agreement. Instead...
Viereck has chosen verse to express this conflict between black and white, because "its universal inarticulate emotions can be felt sensuously through conflicting rhythms or images." He must have had another and better poet in mind when he wrote that explanation of verse-drama's advantages. Here is a sample of his verse's inarticulate emotion...
...that Tony was far too democratic for any royal servant to work for. To keep busy around the house while his wife was out working at her royal duties, Tony designed and built an elaborate balsa-wood model of an aviary for the London Zoo. Sniffed the bumptious Daily Express: "Mister Armstrong-Jones must now be ranked as one of the leading aviary designers in the country-a not overcrowded profession...
...ecumenical hand and given new hope to many more. A Bill of Principles. Dr. Blake is an enthusiast: he acts not out of fear that Protestantism is withering away but because he senses a new dynamism in the Protestant churches and believes that unity is necessary to express it. He is well aware that it would be unwise to make too specific a blueprint at this stage; in his San Francisco sermon, he merely cited certain principles to be followed. On the "catholic" side...