Word: expressionisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hanify's letter on behalf of the HUC asked suspension of classes on October 15 to aid students' expression of "conscientious concern" about the war, a subject of "paramount concern to all the members of the University community."
You might ask: What does Putney Swope have? Answer: Two dwarfs making love, a nun smoking cigarettes, the expression "Fuck You!" a table of advertising men who continue to go about their business even when their chairman drops dead before their very eyes. a lot of possibly obscene commercials produced...
Anyone seeking the forerunner of modern study of animal behavior will find the thing well done in the books of Darwin himself. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, for example, is crammed with observational detail and modest supposition. Almost a third longer at a third the price...
The past colors so much of what happens in Ulster today that it's probably wise to begin with the past. Ulster, although it is a political part of the United Kingdom and a geographical part of Ireland, is a nation unto itself too. It has its own prejudices, traditions...
There is little if any hope that euphemisms will ever be excised from mankind's endless struggle with words that, as T. S. Eliot lamented, bend, break and crack under pressure. For one thing, certain kinds of everyday euphemisms have proved their psychological necessity. The uncertain morale of an...