Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission members "wanted it to be terribly clear that this was the work of the authors and did not necessarily express the views of the commission," Charles Heck, assistant to the director, said yesterday...
...while the Premier should be a Sunni Moslem (as Rifai is). Lebanese Moslems were furious at the appointment, nonetheless, because Rifai represents the army, whose officer corps is predominantly Christian. The Palestinians and even the neighboring Syrians were also angry. Damascus quickly dispatched its Foreign Minister to Beirut to express its displeasure...
...PEACE PROTEST. I think it is decreasing. Everyone in this country of sound mind has occasion to express himself openly. Is shouting "Down with the Shah!" the only kind of freedom? The people of this country will not accept this. Maybe 1,000 or 1,500 will, but the rest will not. People can express their views on any subject, but we will not tolerate any Iranian betraying his country-and I don't mean betraying the monarchy...
However they express their appreciation, the Japanese are now saturated with Occidental sound. It was during the reign of the actively Westernizing Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) that European music was adopted by the Japanese school system. But as recently as World War II, the country had only one major orchestra, the then state-sponsored NHK Symphony, and only one basic source of non-Asian music, Germany. Today Tokyo alone has seven full-time orchestras, and Ludwig van Beethoven of Bonn remains Japan's favorite composer. Roughly 15% of all symphonic music played in Japan was written by him. Last...
Another Cabinet member too loyal to the President to express his doubts in public was Under Secretary of State George Ball. Inside the Johnson Administration, Ball was known as "Mr. Stop the Bombing." Outside, he was the perfect gentleman, his lips sealed against his own misgivings. Even today Ball says, "Why should I have resigned in protest over Viet Nam policy just because I disagreed with it? My main responsibility and my principal interest was Western Europe." Yet Ball was the No. 2 man in the State Department. If he and others in powerful positions had made a public issue...