Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike the Democrats, most Iowa Republicans were not called upon to express a preference for a candidate at their precinct caucuses. But a straw poll of 583 voters-in 2.5% of all the precincts-was taken at 62 precincts. President Ford was favored over Ronald Reagan by a mere 45% to 42.5%. It appeared to be a setback for the President, who had the backing of popular Republican Governor Robert...
Jean-François Revel, an editor of the French newsweekly L'Express, is a self-proclaimed "man of the left" who likes to prick the balloons of current intellectual fashion. In 1971, when anti-Americanism was a favorite French salon game, Revel audaciously argued in Without Marx or Jesus that the U.S. was the last best hope for genuine world revolution. Now Revel is at it again. At a time when many non-Communist leftists in Europe are getting newly enthusiastic about coalitions with Communist parties, he insists in a new book called The Totalitarian Temptation that there...
HUSSAINI: I will have to wait and see if the Israeli government would end its military occupation of these territories and allow the Palestinians the freedom to express their opinion and determine their destiny. We ask how long are the West Bank and Gaza going to remain under Israeli occupation. This is why Palestinians speak of liberation. When you have people under military rule, they have every right to resist. Our struggle for liberation is not against the Jews; it is to live as a free people...
...helping Exxon sell ever more gasoline and accrue ever-increasing profits, and who detail their travels abroad and the cultural events they witness in their leisure, have little or nothing to say about their contributions toward making our society a better place in which to live. Nor do they express concern for the problems and welfare of the vast majority of those less fortunate than themselves...
...last few years of Dame Agatha's life saw an upsurge in Christiemania. Murder on the Orient Express, the film based on her novel Murder in the Calais Coach, was a huge box office success that spurred even further the sales of her books. Curtain, the novel in which Hercule Poirot predeceases his author (TIME, Sept. 15), is still No. 1 on U.S. bestseller lists, with over a quarter of a million copies in print...