Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Christians still feel content to express their prayers in 17th century English, laced with archaic court periphrastics and metaphors that derive from feudalism. On the assumption that these forms give God the reputation of being hard to talk to, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd has devised a hippier style of communicating with the Almighty. Episcopalian Boyd, who had a successful career in advertising before his ordination in 1955, and has since ministered to college students, last week published his orisons for the age in Are You Running with Me, Jesus?, a book of what Anglican Bishop John A. T. Robinson...
...third to one-half of the executives' working salaries, and in some cases much more. What the corporate celebrities really miss are the old powers, pressures and personal contacts-the feeling of being on the inside and the sense of responsible activity. Some companies (Honeywell Inc., American Express and Jersey Standard, among others) try to fill the gap by giving their retired chief executives and directors a base for new activities; they provide them with office space, but it is usually segregated from the men at work...
...defense produced a psychiatrist who, in a certain sense, agreed with Mme. Vasseur. He testified that Vasseur was "emotionally castrated" by her as a child, and embraced his grisly Gestapo duties because they gave him a chance to express his virility. "To this day," observed the psychiatrist, "he always refers to her as Maman (Mummy), and suffered most in jail from seeing Maman only once a week." The court listened impassively, then sentenced him to be shot unless-as seems unlikely-Charles de Gaulle grants him a pardon. To the end he maintained that, although guilty of many crimes...
...Pulitzer prize-winning poet is expected to explain his refusal to attend the White House Arts Festival and to express his views on the Vietnam crisis. This will be Lowell's first public statement since his open letter to President Johnson last June...
...that time the department agreed to consider methods by which students could express opinions to the faculty...