Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...participator in the demonstration against you at Haravrd last week I should like to extend an apology. On reflection it has become clear to me that the only way to express the opinion that the war in Vietnam is an immoral one of mass murder motivated by the commendable desire of keeping the world's wealth in the hands of the race that deserves it without being unpardonably discourteous is through the formal channels that have been thoughtfully provided for such expression...
...some time in December, the President did manage to get in one final round of politicking. In one of the most heatedly partisan press conferences of his presidency, he dismissed Barry Goldwater's prediction that Republican Ronald Reagan would win a landslide victory in California. "I would just express the hope," rasped Johnson, "that there has been no improvement in Senator Goldwater's judgment since...
Second-Coming Symbolism. When the Arian heretics proposed that Christ, while divine, was not equal to God the Father, the Council of Nicaea in 325 turned to a word derived from Hellenic philosophy, homoousia, to express its conviction that Jesus was of the same "substance" with the Father. At the Council of Constantinople, 56 years later, church fathers responded to heresy by defining the divinity of the Holy Spirit and proclaiming that the three "persons," or hypostases, were coequal manifestations...
...into Sandhurst but only into the cavalry, which was not expected to have as much brains as the infantry. Horses and the higher style of living required of a cavalry cadet would cost Lord Randolph an extra ?200 a year. Winston, high-spirited as always, had the nerve to express pleasure at his feat in getting into Sandhurst at all. His reward was a letter from his imperious papa which must rank as one of the nastiest ever written by a father to a son. After scolding Winston for his "slovenly happy-go-lucky harum-scarum style of work...
...world is satiated by conventional music," explains Siday. "To grasp a listener today, you have to give him something new." The whole trick lies in "the art of miniaturization -saying something that instantly stands for a corporation's personality." His instructions for the signature music for American Express were that it should say "America, business, travel." The America part was easy; he simply recorded six notes of the national anthem, then added a dash of business and travel by "tricking the tape up a bit" with his machines. What these signatures say to Siday is money. None of them...