Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corporations giving money to Harvard seem strong. He admires the foresight of German corporations, which he says don't restrict their money to the study of their own country, but insist that it be used to study all of Europe. He says he wishes that U.S. corporations would express the same commitment...
...believes in and admires. Fortunately, he has communicated his earnestness to Writer Goldman, whose humor is tempered by uncharacteristic restraint, and to an excellent cast, among whom Bo Brundin as Kessler stands out. As for Redford, this is his best work since Downhill Racer. Appealingly awkward when trying to express his feeling for flying, he is in his most dashingly self-destructive mode when demonstrating the heights to which his passion drives him. All in all, The Great Waldo Pepper is popular entertainment of a very high order. ∙Richard Schickel
What she wanted was to express her sense of loss, her grief and affection for someone she had never seen. She had cherished that desire so long that the image of the dead infant had become a symbol of yearning...
HERSEY'S WRITING is ideally fitted to the novel's content. The short, almost choppy sentences express conversation well, and almost embody thoughts deliberated and forgotten in microseconds. At times, his Hemingwayesque turn of phrase verges on journalism, but even this is effective. Hersey is trying to sting minds with his nightmare world, and the more matter-of-fact he can be, the greater the impact. He puts you in the lines, where it's easy to feel the invasion and massacre of privacy, easy to remember the tensions of shared or walk-through bedrooms, easy to imagine Harvard Square...
Students disrupted attempts last April by William B. Shockley. Stanford University physicist, to express his controversial views on race and intelligence...