Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exclaims: "The crowd turns on the diva. [Pause] But the diva doesn't care!" Her singing, much of it done with three saucy young women called the Harlettes, is no threat to Streisand, or even Minnelli. But it bursts with feeling-almost too much for mere lyrics to express...
...Which express numerically a material's ability to retard the flow of heat...
...bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging and burning wood...
...almost incidental: Islam is, as much as anything else, the repository for grievances, envies and hatreds that Third World have-nots harbor for the privileged of the globe. Islam gives cohesion to complaints about the injustices of the world. The Muslim tradition provides the language and symbolism to express a wide social message: it is not necessarily a religious phenomenon. It is not antiChristian. In fact, Muslims really regard modern Westerners as a species of pagan. Ironically, some of the resentment has been aroused by the emergence of oil-rich classes within the Islamic countries themselves. With that wealth came...
John E. Dowling '57, acting co-master of North House and a committee member, said yesterday, "Everyone's very positive" about the service, adding he hoped to extend the express service into the early evening...