Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Statistics cannot express the convulsive reality. The American metropolis seems constantly to be tearing itself down and building itself up again. The din and confusion of building has become a built-in part of the city's confusion. Everywhere old towers crumble, excavations appear, followed by the quick climb of high steel skeletons. They rise straight from the busy city streets, the clusters of trucks, cement mixers and cranes hopelessly aggravating the snarl of traffic. Amid all this there arise new questions about the price of progress...
Second in size only to American Express and serving 10 million travelers a year through 420 offices around the world, Cook's saw its profits dawdle along during the early 1960s and by last year they were down to a mere $2.2 million on a turnover of $378 million. At least part of this sluggishness can be ascribed to the heavy hand of the British government, which has owned the company since 1948. Tory pressure is already building up in Parliament to return Cook's to private ownership...
...Creeds have been traditionally used by the church to express solidarity in times when its direct influence is waning. However, the creed you describe as "Paul's Traditionalist Credo" [July 12] represents an affirmation of metaphysics and an authoritarian slap to the liberal wing of the church. Can an action like this conceivably unite an already dividing Catholic intelligentsia...
...Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, all played by Schneider and his fellow performers with much warmth, zest and perhaps a shade too much emotionalism (in Schneider's view, "Haydn was a romantic composer; Mozart too-and Bach"). The performance was unified, but each player had the freedom to express his own personality. "Homogeneity is the worst thing in music," Schneider explains. "It is not so good in marriage either. The first five bars sound wonderful, but afterward you are very bored because everything sounds the same...
Between 1925 and 1930, Miró tried dozens of different ways to express "the spirit of the thing." Some ornate fantasies, like The Harlequin's Carnival, became popular immediately, but others had to wait decades for their audiences. His 1930 Painting is as elemental and totemic as a mobile by Calder -or any painting that would be turned out by New York's abstract expressionists in the 1950s...