Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write to you to express my admiration for your July 13 article on Earl Long. It is an exceptionally fine piece of reporting, evoking all the seemingly unbelievable Faulknerian overtones of the situation...
This notice of intentions-elaborately written in the language of peace and plenty at the American fair, convincingly repeated in the language of unashamed power by Nixon-was the essence of the new diplomacy. It riled some old-style folks. Huffed the London Daily Express: "A disgraceful performance . . . Back to the days of secret diplomacy is the best prospect for world peace...
...political immaturity of his followers," for "disobedience was the inevitable consequence of what he was saying and doing," and "there is no room for a Hyde Park in Nyasaland." Concluded the report: "Nyasaland is-no doubt only temporarily-a police state where it is not safe for anyone to express approval of the policies of the Congress Party, to which, before March 3, 1959, the vast majority of politically minded Africans belonged, and where it is unwise to express any but the most restrained criticism of government policy...
...vital campus relation, to Wriston, is that in which the scholar tries to stimulate students to "the cultivation of a mind that seeks to express itself in its own way at its own best "evel." This is part of "the democratic process," which "has a strength, a stability, a moral force that no other system can match," and the U.S. should take pride...
...RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY will continue operation because New York Central, the largest stockholder, reversed a previous decision to withdraw. Broad reorganization plan to change the agency's payment method and improve traffic routing was unanimously approved by 178 member railroads...