Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected? The 40th ballot began. Suddenly. Jacob Meyer received an urgent note asking for an immediate private meeting with the leaders of the American Jewish Human Relations Council. (Three other Jewish organizations were waiting in three other rooms with three different views to express, but he didn't know.) The head of the organization said: "Jacob, we urge you not to do it. You will open the floodgates of hatred." The morning after his historic nomination, the nominee was surprised to receive a telegram from the same Jewish organization, hailing his nomination as a "triumph of the American dream...
Jacob Meyer served two hectic terms with genuine distinction. There was little criticism directed at him. Most everybody was afraid to express criticism for fear of being accused of antiSemitism. Meyer's Administration broke the crust of old traditions and old prejudices. He left office on such a churning tide of democratic sentiment that he was able, miraculously, to pick his successor and have him elected against incredible odds: the first Negro President...
...agreed with the Ambassador's of African democracy, although he express concern over the danger in certain aspects of the one-party . Such organization, he maintained, lead to "confusion between party and state loyalty," and a stifling of all criticism...
...plot and prodigality with blood and tears is unmatched by a corresponding richness of language. The actors measure out their lives in coffee breaks. Cigarettes, coffee and apple pie (how eaten or refused) and tone of voice, rather than choice of words, become the idiom in which tragedy must express itself. In this. Edge is perhaps closer to the naturalistic convention than most prestigious art forms; the common man, after all, faces the crises of life with a First Reader vocabulary no more elaborate than the Basic English of Edge. Every woman viewer knows what is meant when Mike Karr...
...express my regrets to the Harvard Slavic Department for any embarrassment this article has caused...