Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judea and Samaria, "will be for the Jewish people for generations upon generations." Said outgoing Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan last week: "The settlements will be established, and all the Arabs can do about it is scurry around like doped cockroaches in a bottle." Few Israeli officials would express their views so callously, but this blind determination to retain a captured territory whose population is 96% Palestinian Arab remains at the very core of the Middle East stalemate...
McGinn said that committee members had a much "stronger resolve to express their moral position," adding that besides the open meeting, a group of students who are fasting to call for divestiture have influenced the committee's discussions...
...knowledge the divestiture fast announced in Monday's Crimson is the first time the fast has been used as a political instrument by Harvard students. The signers of this letter would like to express solidarity with those conducting the divestiture fast...
...faster's opponents will not enter the special relationship of discourse created by the fast, thereby presenting the fasters with the horrible choice of ending the fast or risking death or at least serious physical injury. It is in the hope of avoiding this terrible choice that we express our solidarity with the divestiture fast. We urge the Harvard administration (President Derek Bok and Fellows of the Corporation) to search its soul for that inspiration this would allow it to run a risk no less than that of the divestiture fasters. This risk relates to the possible loss of profits...
NOEL COWARD, however, belongs anywhere but in People. His plays combine wry, sophisticated wit, elegant characters and light, measured farce. Coward relies on the English language--not only what words express clearly and openly, but also what they hide and subtly suggest. A line as unpromising as "don't quibble. Sybil" conveys much with its brevity, sound and the actor's accompanying expressions and pauses...