Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wherever she went, she listened carefully-and urged heads of state and their minions to express themselves freely. "You can be blunt," she would say. "Go ahead, that's what I'm here for." Throughout her 13-day tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosalynn Carter managed to establish a frank rapport with her hosts. She achieved her goal of convincing top leaders that President Carter wants to improve long-neglected relations with Latin nations...
...grim replay of that incident, nine young Moluccans hijacked a Utrecht-Groningen express train near De Punt on May 23, while five others seized the primary school at Bovensmilde, where there were 105 children and five teachers. There was no doubt that the Moluccans intended to terrify the country. The children were forced to the windows to chant to the waiting troops and parents, "Van Agt, we want to live!" On several occasions hostages were displayed outside the train with ropes around their necks. But after an influenza-type epidemic broke out at the school, the terrorists freed...
...belts to the fascination with occult healing. Some feminists insist on teaching themselves how to perform their own gynecological examinations in order to regain control, as they put it, of their own bodies from the male-dominated medical profession. Vastly different ideologies may be at play, but these grievances express a common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile), Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the witty editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, has said it well: "Forbidden fruits are mighty tasty, and especially to those who hope...
...Harvard women's studies committee does not have to worry about becoming a growth industry just yet. Although the proposal will be discussed in the fall, its prospects for survival are uncertain. Dean Rosovsky refuses to express any personal opinion on the matter, pending recommendations from various committees and Faculty Council debate. Pipkin says faculty CUE members expressed no hostility to the idea of looking into women's studies, but thought anything else would be premature at this point...
...Rocks (1912) shapes in six sweeping strokes a woman lying before stones. The style reduces the forms to their common denominators and merges them into one totality. This unity of the human body with nature was one of the major themes that Kirchner sought a style to express. "Developing a calligraphic style is just as difficult as learning to walk," Kirchner wrote. A drawing such as his large Nude on a Bed (1908), one of the highlights of the Bergen collection, shows that the search for style was a conscious endeavor, involving constant formal training. The work, in charcoal over...