Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such attention is nothing new for Revel, a literary editor and columnist for the newsmagazine L 'Express and its editor in chief from 1978 to 1981. His 1970 book in praise of American freedom of dissent, Without Marx or Jesus, outraged nationalistic French intellectuals of both the left and right. In 1976 he created another furor with The Totalitarian Temptation, a blistering condemnation of French Socialist tolerance of "vintage Stalinism...
...perhaps history could help them out. Harvard received a grant from a charitable organization in 1654 to build an Indian College. When it was torn down--in 1693, the bricks served to build the cellars of Stoughton hall, at the express condition that if any Indian showed up, he would be provided "lodging rent-free" in the hall...
...writing to express our frustration at the way negotiations between the final clubs and the student-faculty Committee on College Life are proceeding...
...Grace spokesman said they could best express important facts through smaller meetings. Some residents shouted at an NCTAC member who lives in Porter Square, accusing him and other "outsiders" of trying to take over the meeting...
...bishops' letter evoked mixed responses. "I came away with a feeling that these are well-meaning people who really don't understand our capitalistic system," said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), chairman of Milwaukee-based American Medical Buildings. But Roger Altman, managing director of Shearson Lehman/American Express and a self-described "serious Catholic," was sympathetic. Said he: "Our society has an obligation to the underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon Cos., a major grocery...