Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to Senator Dodd for his forthright expression of what must certainly be the views of the overwhelming majority of thinking Americans [Aug. 24].
When Charles Hopkinson was portraying Calvin Coolidge, he tried to animate the President's Vermont-granite features by inquiring into one of the great crises in Coolidge's life: "What was your first thought, Mr. President, when you heard that Harding had died?" Without any change of expression...
Pressed by a newsman for a quick verbal self-portrait on the eve of his 89th birthday, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch put on a mischievous, mysterious expression, nutshelled: "I do everything I used to do-but not quite as much!"
The reason for such college illiteracy, Graber firmly believes, is TV's strictly phonetic teaching. The more the student watches TV, the more he learns new words through spoken rather than written language. "Because of the slovenliness of American speech and the ease with which words can be misunderstood...
Where are we going? "On to the stainless steel cities of the future!" cried the young man, oblivious to the professor's expression of horrified pity.