Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe in Rockefeller and his heritage. Why shouldn't he express his gratitude to friends with a token gift of a porcelain figurine? This gesture was not a swindle at the expense of the taxpayer. The Carnegie, Rockefeller and Henry Ford families, through their endowments of Libraries and foundations, have contributed much to the peoples of the Americas and other countries...
...beat you four times a day because you love him, but not because you can't afford to leave him." Giroud has obviously been taking her own advice. As a journalist, she was co-founder and longtime editor of the French newsweekly L'Express. As a spokesperson for women's rights, she was named France's first State Secretary for the Condition of Women earlier this year. "The American woman has a profound sense of having been conned," she says. "American women were partners in building America, in pioneering, and the next thing they knew, suddenly...
...will enable Zaire to develop its hydroelectric potential, and Gulf Oil has begun offshore production, which may satisfy the country's domestic fuel needs by the end of next year. The prospect of abundant power has prompted Reynolds Metals, among a number of other industrial giants, to express interest in investing. As a result of Mobutu's visit to Peking last year, Kinshasa now swarms with Chinese doctors and agricultural technicians. The Japanese have been asked to help build Zaire's first transnational railroad. The French and Belgians are planning a new deepwater port at Banana, Zaire...
...artists Germany produced in the 19th century. He never made the obligatory journey south to study in Rome; his subject matter was the foggy and precipitous vista, sublimely expansive and filled with premonitory brooding. The writer Ludwig Tieck believed Friedrich was the Nordic genius incarnate, whose mission was "to express and suggest most sensitively the solemn sadness and religious stimulus which seem recently to be reviving our German world in a strange way." This month a retrospective of Friedrich's work -about 230 paintings and studies -opened in Frankfurt, reviving a man without whose work the romantic impulse...
...Baraka who in his essay Jazz and the White Critic, said so eloquently what took Bland about fifty minutes to express ineffectively in this 1959 film. Bland contends that white musicians have taken over and subsequently destroyed black jazz. Bland bases his contentions on the argument that jazz is built upon the contradiction between restraint and freedom which only blacks, through their heritage of suffering in America, can understand...