Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know of no one who has anything but contempt for South Africa's apartheid regime. But freedom to express one's ideas would be ephemeral if it applied only to popular, majoritarian views...
...investment houses' favor. Glass-Steagall has not proved to be much of a barrier for investment firms that wish to engage in banking activity, even if it has worked well the other way around. Over the past two decades, firms like Merrill Lynch (assets: $53 billion) and American Express (assets: $99 billion) have eaten deeply into traditional commercial-banking turf, first through near banking activities like interest-bearing money-market accounts, then through home-equity loans...
...When the Paris office of American Express volunteered to help restore the monument, however, a sensitive national nerve was pricked. "Americans threaten to land on Arc de Triomphe," howled the daily Liberation. Last week the National Federation for Public Works called for a massive fund drive. The Paris government says it will probably allow private companies like American Express to donate up to 40% of the restoration costs, which could come to $6 million...
...right, and our difficulty in coming up with a more appropriate song only reflects the poverty of positive images of women in popular musical culture. In light of this, Greaves and Rader's implicit condemnation of Annie Lennox is particularly wrong-headed. Lennox may sing love songs that express emotions Greaves and Rader find unacceptable, but she also co-wrote and recorded, with Aretha Franklin, "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves", arguably the most straightforwardly feminist manistream pop song ever. In public appearances Lennox constantly challenges accepted gender norms. The point should be obvious: Lennox is succeeding in the male...
...truly alive, we must seek to express our souls. I feel that in my poetry I have achieved the elusive divine spark that can express my innermost self and individuality better than anything else I do, save my unruly tendency to speak with my mouth full...