Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrorists," as he called them, made no bones about conspiring to make trouble. But their visible leaders, at least, were disaffected young Americans who professed as much scorn for Communism as for capitalism. Foolhardy and arrogant as their tactics often were, the main goal of the protesters was to express their rejection of both the war and party bossism, and they undeniably made it register in the minds of Democratic leaders. Ironically-and perhaps significantly-the demonstrators' most effective allies were the police, without whose brutal aid the protest would not have been so striking...
Others have also deplored the Soviet intervention. Several weeks before the invasion began, ex-General Pyotr Grigorenko, another frequent demonstrator for freedom, called at the Czechoslovak embassy in Moscow to express his approval of Dubček's reforms and his indignation at Russia's campaign. In late July, Author Anatoly Marchenko, a member of the Daniel-Litvinov circle, sent a letter to three Czechoslovak news papers declaring: "I am ashamed of my country. I would be ashamed of my people if I thought that they really did unanimously approve the policy of the [Soviet] Central Committee...
...Institution sent in experts to photograph and measure the buildings for its archaeological memory book. "Unfortunately," says Curator Robert Vogel, "the Smithsonian can offer nothing but sympathy. The mill has too many owners, and it would take an enormous amount of money to save it." Even old mill hands express little nostalgia at Amoskeag's passing. Mrs. Bertha Halde, 84, has fond memories of her girlhood days as a weaver of gingham, but she says of the destruction plan: "That's progress. The buildings are no good anyway, are they? They...
...sign of mourning." He sleeps from dawn to midmorning, lives and works in his tightly guarded Umuahia villa. He evacuated his wife Njide-ka and two small children after a bomb was dropped near his home. Slouched at his desk, pacing the grounds impatiently in darkness, chain-smoking State Express filter cigarettes, he is a lonely figure in his besieged land. Ojukwu often is pictured in Nigerian propaganda as a power-mad Hitler. In fact, he runs Biafra as a wartime democracy, frequently seeking the advice of his consultative assembly of Ibo elders. Biafra also has a functioning judiciary...
Resolutions of the Lambeth Conference are not binding on the 19 member churches, but they are intended to express the consensus of the Communion. Last week the bishops approved a formal statement reaffirming their belief in the morality of birth control. (The 1930 Lambeth Conference was the first major Christian assembly to approve contraception in principle.) Rejecting the conclusions of Pope Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae, the bishops declared that the responsibility for deciding the number and spacing of children "has been laid by God upon the consciences of parents...