Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pastoral lot, you'll have to overcome one stumbling block: the high wire mesh fence that encloses three sides of the property. And climbing it may not endear you to Harvard officials. While they say there's no reason why University members cannot use the land, they also express reservations about mounting the fence to get there...
...remembered time when students were more radical than they are now. The Crimson's sympathies were passed on to us in a way that seems now more felt than understood; we continued with a legacy tied not only to values but to an emotional climate. And we attempted to express the same sympathies in a time when every situation--Cambodia is only the clearest example--seems infinitely complex, full of competing values and lacking the wave of emotionalism in the community that would override those conflicts...
...exciting aspect of Mrs. Ford's comments on abortion and "having affairs" [Aug. 25] is not so much the substance of them, as it is the freedom which she and her family feel to express their diversity of views on the topics. What a perfect model of the dynamics and purpose of freedom of speech in a democracy-to get controversial issues into the public dialogue where the various legitimate and not-so-legitimate points of view can be argued...
...Israel has insisted and may well get its way. "An attack through U.N. lines does not carry the symbolic gravity that an attack through American stations would," observes an Israeli official. "With Americans between the two armies, each side would hesitate to attack, and the American presence would express America's belief that war will not serve either side." Another Israeli says: "The main Sinai roads toward Israel will be in American hands. We can trust those hands...
...siren song of a train whistle: "I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it." Thus his trip represented a once-in-a-lifetime act of massive self-indulgence, plus the chance to experience firsthand "the trains with the bewitching names: the Orient Express, the North Star, the Trans-Siberian." As an added bonus, the trips threw him together with several novels' worth of offbeat characters...