Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewer of my film Nine Days of a Year [Jan. 15] says that the characters in Soviet films "are frankly bourgeois." Does he see bourgeois signs in the fact that the characters are well-dressed, go to restaurants, drive cars, freely express their opinions, live in modern apartments, and complain about "administrative fools"? This is a curious kind of logic! It reminds me of a capitalist who came to Moscow from his Eastern country, unfortunately a backward country. "You call this socialism?" said the man. "In my country we have real socialism, for three-fourths of our population go barefoot...
...Harvard sophomores, in an attempt to express commercially the view taken by the Surgeon General on cigarette smoking, have produced their own brand of weeds. They call them "Kiss of Death" cigarettes...
Murder in the Park. What everyone feared finally happened on the fugitive's sixth day of freedom. GOLDIE TURNS KILLER! screamed the Daily Express. Worse still, the killer had eaten the victim. It was a Muscovy duck that had been swimming innocently in a nearby pond as Goldie-the Regent's Park Zoo's proud golden eagle-yielded to the demands of an angry appetite...
...mind whether to hold elections in all parts of the northeast. His troops are under orders to secure as much land as possible before the northeast elections begin, and election officials are expected to move in on the heels of the army to allow the newly liberated tribes to express their gratitude by voting for Tshombe. Reluctant voters will be lured to the polls with sacks of salt, but campaigning will be a dangerous business. "If you go off the main road," Munongo recently warned all candidates, "someone is liable to stick a spear...
...triumph of a revolution in theological thinking about what Catholicism is. It not only restores to bishops collegial rule that was theirs in the early church; it also justifies freedom of action and thought by the laity, who, the decree says, are "permitted and sometimes even obliged to express their opinions on those things which concern the good of the church...