Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbol of self-denial. But out of modesty he refused to let the fact be relayed to the rioting people, and the possible impact was lost. Yet many Indians feel that more than self-abnegation is needed to confront grave problems. Says Editor Frank Moraes of the Indian Express: "Leaders have no business being humble...
...Great One promptly took his own advice, and so did most of the other 113 passengers. Gleason was highballing to Miami Beach to begin taping his fall television series. CBS donated $18,000, plus $1,500 in tipping change, to sponsor the rolling bedlam called the Great Gleason Express. Amid the blares of the stuck diesel horns ("BAAAAH!") and a familiar howl ("HOW SU-WEET IT is!"), the dancers, cronies, reporters and flacks attacked 500 Ibs. of assorted meats, 30 cans of mock turtle soup, 2,614 one-shot whisky bottles and, as they dragged into Miami next...
...Oakland Symphony on Nov. 23, 1963, Milhaud wrote the 31-minute piece in 24 hours. It was premiered in Oakland on Dec. 3. "I was a great admirer of Kennedy or I would never have written it," says Milhaud: "It was a privilege to be offered an occasion to express my sorrow...
...Monday, marchers will "walk towards the Capitol with the intention of convening the Assembly in the chamber of the House of Representatives." Spokesmen explained that the demonstration will "serve as a symbol of the desire of the people of the world to express their opposition to the Vietnam war in a democratic fashion...
Stay There, Mary. Nowhere are there more problems for the translator than on the islands of the Pacific, whose people have hundreds of languages, ranging from Bugi, the tongue of Celebes, to Yapese, spoken on the tiny U.S. trusteeship island of Yap. Most of them require awkward circumlocutions to express Catholic dogma. In pidgin English for example, God is "Bigfellow master too much who bosses heaven and ground." Even more bothersome is the primitive Enga language of the New Guinea mountains. In trying to translate the "Hail Mary" prayer, explains one missionary, "we found that if a group...