Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operating when anaesthesiologists refused to take nonemergency cases. Patients in New York were apprehensive about a possible halt in medical treatment. Doctors in nine of the state's counties objected to a new state law aimed at solving their insurance problems and picketed in New York City to express their distress. Many physicians threatened to withhold all but emergency services beginning this week, despite the threats by at least one legislator of action to lift the licenses of those...
...line into a novel which has no story. West's book is less a novel than a series of sketches of the seamier side of life in Hollywood which he combines into a collage of circus-like characters, aggressively pursuing empty dreams, turning vicious at the earliest opportunity to express their frustration and disillusionment...
...city responds in kind, for it is a city of bitter, empty people waiting for the occasion to express the bitterness within them. They go crazy, literally tearing Homer apart, turning over the limousines that only moments ago they had greeted with their frenzied love, men pawing animal-like at women's breasts and legs, smashing windows and looting stores...
...little white-haired man, like Northrop Frye, sees a decline in imaginative morals these days. He's seen a lot of suffering and says the two world wars have had a "very brutalizing effect." He's tried to express his loves and his worries, and at the least, has entertained people. Right now he's doing the things he likes to do, because he has the money. And he's getting new ideas all the time...
Although Wilson's Panglossian performance was undoubtedly intended to tranquilize the national case of nerves, it created more anxieties than it allayed. Press reaction ranged from mild ridicule to outright contempt. Said the Daily Express: "Mr. Wilson is no white man's Muhammad Ali. Instead he floats like a bee and stings like a butterfly...