Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outwaving such ardent flag wavers as Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,420,000) canceled its new, highly touted contract for a weekly column by Muggeridge. The BBC scheduled, then canceled, several TV shows on which Muggeridge might have had a chance to answer his critics. Last week, in the unkindest cut of all, the BBC announced that it "does not wish to renew Mr. Muggeridge's contract" for 26 TV appearances a year. Protested London's Daily Mirror: "If all views must agree with the BBC (Better Be Careful) censors, nothing worthwhile...
...Great Expectations) does a whale of a job. He shows a dazzlingly musical sense and control of the many and involving rhythms of a vast composition. He shows a rare sense of humor and a feeling for the poetry of situation; and he shows the even rarer ability to express these things, not in lines but in lives. Most important of all, he understands the real nature of the story he is telling. The film cries from the depths of personal disaster and impersonal fate that man is not the measure of all things, that life is bigger than...
...other two: the collision of two passenger trains and a troop train at Quintinshill, near Gretna, Scotland, on May 22, 1915, which took the lives of 227; the triple collision of express and commuter trains at Harrow on Oct. 8, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), in which 112 were killed...
...suppose you ever thought you'd drink to Hirohito's health when you were in that Jap prison camp in Malaya." The ex-P.W. grinned and drank his toast. Said Kishi later, in a forthright speech: "It is my official duty, and my personal desire, to express to you and through you to the people of Australia, our heartfelt sorrow for what occurred in the war." Kishi's apology made headlines across Australia...
...Railway Express truck pulled up at a big yellow brick house on Chicago's North Drake Avenue one morning last week, and as the deliveryman handed over a package, he said knowingly, "Here's another one for the doc." Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...