Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stock that was selling in London for $12.88 per share. But as the stock price soared nearly $7 on the news last week, British tempers soared even higher. "Kill this sellout. Britain's economic independence is at stake," screamed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. Intoned the Daily Express: "The British Empire comes before the Ford empire." The Financial Times warned soberly that since British Vauxhall is already wholly owned by General Motors, the Ford move would put half the British auto industry in U.S. hands...
...working on his heftiest novel yet (previous record: 897 pages in From the Terrace), apparently ignoring the fact that his jumbo works are not as good as his short ones. The outstanding qualities of these stories are matchless dialogue and-since there is much that dialogue cannot express directly-an attractive measure of reticence...
...Announced his reply to a telegram from President Eisenhower, who had invited Kennedy and his aides to meet with him and White House officers to discuss transition problems. Kennedy answered with a telegram: I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU AND AGAIN EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR COOPERATION. (Earlier, Kennedy had wired Ike: THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS HOPEFUL THAT YOUR LONG EXPERIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF YOUR COUNTRY CAN BE DRAWN UPON FURTHER IN THE YEARS TO COME.) Probable meeting date: right after Thanksgiving...
...most was that everybody advised me against it." His solution: rendering the novelist's gush of gutter talk through Sennett-like changes of pace, face and place-with virtually a sight-gag per frame. The result: a remarkably faithful translation of the book that the Paris Express summed up as "90 minutes of cinematographic paroxysm...
...William James wrote "The Moral Equivalent of War," arguing that "a permanently peaceful economy cannot be a simple pleasure economy." Now it is called "the era of high-consumption" or "the affluent society," but the lesson's the same. Another way to express it is "a moral escape from boredom." Young men want that escape. In 1910, writing for an America not yet a world power, James prescribed manual labor in the U.S.-"fishing fleets in December... road-building and tunnel-making." That was a great era of economic expansion here. In 1960, young men, if given the chance, could...