Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamsters must "protect the constitutional rights of individual members and locals in regard to elections, qualifications for office, and freedom to express views at meetings." (In the past, dissenting Teamster members have often suffered beatings and other reprisals at the hands of Hoffa bullyboys.) ¶ The Teamsters must clean up the administration and counting of union funds and properties...
...list of the 20th century. The four volumes of his Journals are a matchless record of self-search and self-revelation. Renowned as a man of letters, Gide was perhaps more influential and controversial as a kind of culture hero of his time. His cult of untrammeled self-expression spawned flocks of disciples who had little self to express and even less talent for expressing it. What Gide possessed that the illegitimate cultural brood of his hobohemian descendants lacks was self-discipline and a demanding conscience for being honest with himself. It is this combination that makes...
...faith. As long as the islanders' social situation remains unchanged, says Worsley. the cargo cults persist, but with the development of modern political forms, they begin to wither away. "In Melanesia, ordinary political bodies, trade unions, and native councils are becoming the normal media through which the islanders express their aspirations ... It now seems unlikely that any major movement along cargo-cult lines will recur...
Virtue in Curves. For Torroja, the beauty of structure grows out of the mathematical laws that express the flow of stresses and tensions. "For the first time in the history of art," says Torroja, "the structure has acquired an independent personality, so that its own intimate esthetic quality can be appreciated...
...said the tall, black-clad man as he smiled shyly at his audience. "I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation." The Prior of his Dominican monastery would probably express the vocation differently, but he gladly permits Brother Antoninus to give readings of his own poems, as he is doing this week in Los Angeles for the Commonweal Club. His poetry and his whole career may be I way out, but his purpose is to move men way in to Christ...