Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House hearing room last week looking suspiciously like an official of the U.S. Postal Service. Testifying about a 1981 plan for mail delivery after a nuclear war, Ralph H. Jusell, the Postal Service civil defense coordinator, said, "Those that are left will get their mail." Under the plan, express, registered, certified and special delivery service would have to be suspended for a while, but first-class mail would continue to receive priority treatment; it would be delivered even if the survivors ran out of stamps. Some preparations are already in place: postal distribution centers have stocked food and medical supplies...
...just sitting there watching TV and playing video games." In fact, teen-agers appear to be buying their own books for a change. Retail giants like B. Dalton have expanded Young Adult racks in their shopping-mall stores. Books such as Rock 'n ' Roll Nights, The Divorce Express and Are You in the House Alone?, wrapped up in catchy cover art, are moving faster than Pac-Man manuals...
...undergraduate organization, Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Social Responsibility (HRSSR) will be continuing its Swing District Project in the fall. The project, which involves many of HRSSR's 300 members is an attempt to educate voters in 27 selected congressional districts to how they can express their opinion on the nuclear arms issue...
...novel in this century has drawn such worldwide acclaim," said the London Daily Express of Doctor Zhivago. That was the trouble. By the time an English version reached the U.S. in 1958, two years after Boris Pasternak had sent his manuscript out of the Soviet Union, the novel's potential readers were already weary, and wary, of the Pasternak affair. It had been in the headlines for more than a year. In literary circles, skepticism and envy were aroused by the celebrity of the author and by his Nobel Prize. More disturbing to some intellectuals was the political aspect...
Shortly after Pasternak began 'writing his novel in the mid-1940s he wrote to Freidenberg: "It is my first real work. In it I want to convey the historical image of Russia over the past 45 years, and at the same time I want to express in every aspect of the story-a sad, dismal story, worked out in fine detail, ideally...