Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the Fifth Symphony (1937), a "creative reply to just criticism." Censured by a Communist Party resolution of 1948 for "formalistic distortions and antidemocratic tendencies," Shostakovich wrote two of his next three symphonies about the Russian Revolution. But these works were for official consumption; spiritually, Shostakovich went underground to express his most personal thoughts-to the more intimate, rarefied world of chamber music. Indeed, in the Eighth Quartet (1960), he wrote an autobiography in sound, quoting from his own music: at the climax of the fourth movement, the cello wistfully recalls a melody from Lady Macbeth...
...Cornell, votes by the Student Assembly go directly to the president, assembly leaders express particular satisfaction with the rapid adoption of grievance procedures for Cornell's 5000 student employees earlier this year, a process which they say could have taken much longer through administrative and faculty channels. In addition to that form of tangible influence, students have five seats on the approximately 60-member Cornell board of trustees...
...growing and now great majority in Britain welcomed the dispatch of the Royal Navy task force to the South Atlantic. But some in the U.K. are beginning to express anxiety about its use. Sending the force was all right, the argument goes, but using it is quite another matter. Would that be wise, would it be right? The question can be simply and robustly settled. "Covenants without swords," wrote Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, "are but words." There is no point in sending guns unless you are prepared to use them...
...never stop and bad dreams that do not end with daylight: "Every summer when it rains/ I smell the jungle/ I hear the planes/ I can't tell no one/ I feel ashamed/ Afraid some day/ I'll go insane ..." It shows that popular music can still express strong and complex feelings, not mere sentiment. The true rock spirit may not be languishing after all, just waiting...
...arouses expectations, rather than hopes. Facing no adversity as persistent as graffiti blackly spattered, its viewers can have faith that God provides for believers. As a result, there is no reason to care for the truly needy beyond one's small circle of friends. To clutch a phonebook and express passionate concern for those listed is enough. If, God forbid, evolution accounts for changes in ideas as well as species, Jerry Falwell's fractured vision of a human community originated here. Individuals, the PTL people see their bank accounts filling in the sight of the Lord and rejoice. They...