Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news continued to engulf the White House, Nixon made a show of tending to more important matters. He went on television to express satisfaction in announcing the negotiated separation of Egyptian and Israeli forces on the Suez front (see THE WORLD). But he looked haggard, and phrased his thoughts uncertainly in a quavering voice. He took to radio to discuss the energy crisis. He called in photographers and reporters as he discussed his State of the Union message plans with House Republican Leader Rhodes...
...will die of a heart-attack someday soon and in a way the book is the story of his coming-to-grips with death. Henry feels cheated by a life wasted, listening to the grinding clutches of trucks working their way up Nickel mountain. But he can only express himself by talking to drunks who wander in at three in the morning or by roaring up the mountain in his old pick-up, defying the curves, playing with death. He even loses the diner (his last touchstone) to a new helper. Henry is good, almost too good, so when...
...great westward expansion and as more institutions of higher learning sprouted up, more nicknames were invented: Indians, Bulldogs, Lions, Tigers, Bears, Bobcats, Bearcats, and as the line of civilization moved west, Bison, Buffalo, Pumas and Losers. The Losers was the nickname Custer's soldiers, unlucky miners, and the Pony Express...
...cried one Pittsburgh coed, as she hurried for the subway after one of Dylan's concerts in Philadelphia. "He's all the things we always felt but could never eloquently express...
...Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the third millennium B.C. as being the fall from Eden. At that point simple rural egalitarian society began giving way to cities, authoritarian rule and organized industrial and military power. Alienated from his work and no longer free, man needed new ways to express his humanity, to demonstrate that he could still affect the world around him. Thus warps of character appeared: sadism, the passion to control others, and necrophilia, the attraction to death and destruction. That sadism and necrophilia still are character traits in the 20th century, Fromm demonstrates through chilling psychobiographies...