Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the recent electoral campaign, Harold Wilson's Laborites got considerable political mileage from the charge that Tories had allowed land speculators to amass huge fortunes. Last week stories in two pro-Tory newspapers, the Daily Express and the tabloid Daily Mail, suggested that close associates of Wilson were speculators themselves. The papers also recounted various incidents in which the associates reportedly linked the new Prime Minister's name last year to a series of transactions that were to earn them a $1,860,000 profit on 95 acres of land that they had bought between...
...Prime Minister, who has long had an ingrained suspicion that the Tory press is out to get him, promptly issued writs of intent to sue both the Express and the Mail for libel. During a stormy debate in Parliament, he made an emotional defense of the land transaction referred to by the papers, even though his lawyers had earlier insisted he had no knowledge...
Thirteen months ago, before lunch with three prominent journalists, French President Georges Pompidou remarked: "To each his troubles. Nixon has Watergate, and as for me, I am going to die." None of his three companions-Françoise Giroud of L' Express, Pierre Viansson-Ponté of Le Monde and Roland Faure of L 'Aurore-used the information directly or indirectly while Pompidou lived. Nor did Giroud publish the news that Pompidou was suffering from multiple myeloma (bone-marrow cancer), a fact she had learned prior to the lunch last spring...
...Herbert J. Gans, a Columbia University sociologist, draws up a scenario for "cultural equality" that would eliminate "invidious status and other distinctions between 'highbrow,' 'middlebrow' and 'lowbrow' levels of taste." "A culturally equal society," writes Gans approvingly, "would thus treat all ways of expressing oneself and acting as equal in value, status and moral worth." But why should a taste for Lawrence Welk instead of Pablo Casals, or Jacqueline Susann instead of James Joyce, be held of equal value, status and moral worth? "Because," answers Gans, "they express the differing aesthetic standards of people...
What Heilbroner may express most clearly in this essay is the present fatigued mood of a generation of intellectuals who began, like good Americans, by believing that they had nearly all the answers and have come to despair that they have any. In the absence of proof, a reader can only hope that Heilbroner and his fellow sentries, as he calls them, are now as wrong about sighting the end-of-practically-everything as they were in their youth when, with Marxist or "managerial" revolutions in their heads, a lot of them thought they saw quite another kind Of future...