Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making forays into the field of politics. ("CIA Evaluations of Soviet Military Goals Causes Controversy Among Observers," Crimson, January 3, 1977). For while politics is not a strict science, it does have certain rules. One of these, the so-called First Law of Evidence, holds that you don't express opinions about matters you know nothing about. (I believe the same principle obtains in chemistry and physics). Now the incontrovertible fact is that neither Professor Kistiakowsky nor Professor Feld have ever seen, let alone read, the report which is the subject of your article and their comments; such knowledge...
...FREEDOM FOR CARRILLO demands appeared on Madrid walls faster than government workers could clean them off. Protesters rallied in Paris and Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support of the country's powerful and legal Communist Party, was put upon to express its concern about Carrillo's arrest. As Carrillo admitted after he was taken to Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, "The longer I stay here, the more propaganda I am making for the Communist Party...
Harvard Summer School officials express "grave concern" over the enrollment of only 21 people at the school. Ex-freshman dean and new Summer School director F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37 announces that he hopes to rescue the school with the addition of a rigorous program in polo. "I see this as a democratic program well suited to the school's populist tradition," von Stade explains...
...PEOPLE. Vice President-elect Walter Mondale admires ?and wishes he could emulate?Carter's ability to express warm affection. Carter and his wife hold hands as naturally in public as though they were on a high school date. The Georgian has extraordinary empathy with children. During the campaign, he took time out to talk to grade school kids?about civics, peanut butter, civil liberties?and never talked down to them. Once Carter asked a correspondent about his family. The reporter mentioned that one of his children was suffering from an incurable disease?and turned to see tears running down...
...issue of the French Vogue, Roman wanted the shot, taken by his friend Harry Benson, for the cover. But Vogue's regular editors overruled him. "They told me," he says, "that the ladies who buy Vogue would run away from my cover." But Polanski still managed to express himself inimitably across 53 pages. Among his features: an annotated gallery of his leading ladies (Faye Dunaway is "the grande dame of the screen") and six pages on his idols, Icelandic Painter Erro, the late Bertrand Russell and the late Kung Fu movie star Bruce Lee. All in all, Polanski...