Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anthony A. Ball '86 says the event was successful if it encouraged people who thought the movement was too moderate to join. "It was important for people who thought the movement was too Yuppie to be able to express themselves," he says...
...between our two countries. This is a reflection of the interests of our two peoples and of the politicians who represent them. It is after all the people of the two countries who put the politicians into the positions they hold today. So it is in our interests to express those wishes in practical ways. We must seek ways to put an end to the arms race, to seek disarmament, to switch Soviet-American relations onto a normal track. Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement...
...bargain-hunting Americans in Europe, purse snatching, currency rip-offs and sophisticated new scams in some cities are growing as fast as the influx of visitors. Thieves are operating in formerly safe sites such as Paris' Latin Quarter and even idyllic Stratford-upon-Avon. Refunds for missing American Express Travelers Cheques have climbed by a significant margin. "The British don't want to advertise," says Dick Haegeley, chief of the Passport and Citizen's Unit at the American embassy in London, "but they should have a sign when you step off the plane: BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS." In Paris they...
...tune in Radio Moscow, compared with 47% for the BBC and 26% for the Voice of America. Furthermore, to be heard is not necessarily to be believed. Soviet propaganda is greeted around the world with large doses of skepticism, even in the U.S.S.R. Soviet visitors to the U.S. sometimes express shock to see people out of work. Having read so much about rampant U.S. unemployment in the Soviet press, they assumed the opposite--that there was very little...
...troubling France once again. But this time the controversy involves art rather than matters of state: where to place a bronze statue of Alfred Dreyfus, who was finally exonerated in 1906. The 12-ft.-high work by the artist and sculptor Tim, a political cartoonist for the magazine L'Express, was commissioned by Culture Minister Jack Lang as part of a program to promote French sculpture. Tim wanted the bronze to be placed in the courtyard of L'Ecole Militaire, the academy where in 1895 Dreyfus was stripped of his rank for allegedly passing secrets to the Germans. But Defense...