Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Efforts have frequently been made to vitalize the 128-year-old American institution whose roots go back to the stagecoach. In its present form, REA's history dates to 1917 when, to speed up transportation to the World War I effort, the Government forced the seven major express companies to merge. In 1929 the transportation assets of the amalgam were purchased by the railroads and designated Railway Express Agency. After World War II, the combination began to fail, and in 1959 there was even talk of nationalizing it. Giving in to pressure from Washington, the railroads in 1961 changed...
...Naked Runner. In Von Ryan's Express, he played the Army's most fearless fighter. In Suddenly, he was a potential presidential assassin. In The Manchurian Candidate, he was the friend of a brainwashed veteran turned into a killer by the Chinese Reds. The Naked Runner shows Frank Sinatra trying to combine fractions of all those past film roles in a spy movie that just doesn...
...works of William Burroughs (Naked Lunch, Nova Express) have been taken seriously, even solemnly, by some literary types, including Mary McCarthy and Norman Mailer. Actually, Burroughs' work adds up to the world's pluperfect put-on. The publisher's blurb on the dust jacket attempts to legitimize his latest effusion thus: "Through winds of time, in strange beds, past silent obsidian temples, William Burroughs once again shuttles us back and forth between lunar worlds and the wired electric maze of the city. He presents us with a universe threatened with complete control of communications by the Nova...
Melvin King, director of the South End Settlement House, Youth Opportunity Center, pointed out: "The Negro has no representation on the School Committee or in the city government. The people who have been degraded and discriminated against are denied the opportunity to express their feelings about those people who have discriminated and degraded them...
President Johnson's decision to send the aircraft to the Congo, taken without the express approval of Congress, brought surprising reaction on Capitol Hill. Critics included Democrats and Republicans, Vietnam hawks and doves, and mostly Southerners and Midwesterners. It is understandable that Senator Fulbright (D-Ark.), a leading Vietnam critic, should say that the Congo commitment reflected a U.S. intention to meet aggression everywhere. He asked the Administration to show "some restraint in this kind of intervention" lest the U.S. invite Russia and Communist China to step up their in volvement in Africa...