Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Galla, the B.U. student who assisted in Pratt's escape, visited Pratt and the other AWOL servicemen, Raymond Kroll, in Marsh Chapel Tuesday. Accordin to Galla, Pratt said then that he did not want any part of Resistance demonstrations, but wanted the opportunity to express his personal feelings about...
...There's not much we can do," he said. "We don't have a counterplan to take up the slack. All Harvard can do is to express its dismay at this decision...
Illusive Meaning. In his own mischievous and amiable way, Barth is seeking what has been called "the coincidence of apposites," those meanings that are beyond the ability of value-burdened words to express fully. Sometimes an illusive meaning can be momentarily grasped with an oxymoron-the joining of two mutually contradictory words. Barth's "printed voice" belongs in this category, along with Capote's "nonfiction novel" and Detroit's "hardtop convertible." Clearly-or un-clearly-Lost in the Funhouse is a work of highly significant irrelevance...
...last few years, statesmen and scholars have tended to relegate the cold war to the history books. With the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the old deep freeze has once again engulfed U.S.-Russian relations. Last week, in measured moves designed to express distrust and disapproval, both Defense and State Departments stiffened the U.S. posture against the Soviet Union...
When it comes to love, Cohen can be both a romantic and a realist. At times he glorifies women as succoring goddesses. In Suzanne, published in the book as a poem, a half-mad woman in rags and feathers is melded with the Christ figure to express the perfect union of body and mind...