Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to express my indignation at the severe injustice you have done Stan Kenton [TIME, March 1]. The despairingly stagnant condition of popular American music has been in existence far too long, and I believe that, whether he is right or wrong in his efforts, Mr. Kenton should be commended for his one-man crusade to alleviate this deplorable condition...
...mile flight inaugurating Pan American Airways' new direct route to Johannesburg, South Africa. During six days there, we were guests of the Union of South Africa and our host was Minister of Justice and Interior Harry Lawrence. I am sure I speak for my colleagues when I express my gratitude for a singularly exciting and enlightening trip and a too brief but very interesting look at South Africa's principal cities...
Said the New York Times : "There can be no doubt that his candidacy would command wide support in a national election." Almost all U.S. journals had praise for him as a soldier and a military governor, but wanted to hear MacArthur express his views. In Wisconsin, where his Republican supporters had centered their campaign, there was also jubilation. But there could be no doubt about it, in the first week the boos were larger than the cheers...
...world today. It moves in wherever a society decays or falters or listens to fools, and destroys what is left. Patriots like Nikola Petkoff in Bulgaria are shot. Compromisers like Jan Masaryk are driven (by Communist hands or their own despair) through windows. Men like Talich, who can express what the people feel, are silenced. Beria's march will continue until the brains, the dollars, the power, and a reawakened moral force of the West stop...
...liberal, I wish to express my shock and resentment at the attitudes expressed by Professor Matthiessen and Geoffrey White concerning the death of Jan Masaryk. To millions of democrats the suicide of one of the greatest fighters for social and political freedom in the face of a tragic and reactionary revolution holds lessons neither Professor Matthiessen nor Mr. White would share. In death, Masaryk symbolizes the disillusionment of a non-Communist progressive who sincerely and honestly attempted to work with Communists, and whose despair at a future without liberty for the Czech people could find no more eloquent protest than...