Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courage to face people." Later, in Denver, Scranton apologized, said his remark had been "ill-advised." "I know Goldwater has personal courage," he explained. "No one denies that. But since the New Hampshire primary, he has been guarded and hemmed in by the politicians around him lest he express his personal views...
With elections due in the fall, both major parties in Britain were beginning to nip at one another's heels. There was not all that much to argue about. Labor M.P. James Callaghan, economics spokesman in the shadow cabinet, rose in the Commons to express shock at the hardly startling discovery that several large corporations were funneling money into Conservative Party coffers. For their part, the Tories were trying to force Labor to discuss details of its plans for nationalization, which Harold Wilson's men have been deliberately vague about; in the end, Deputy Leader George Brown repeated...
Wozzeck was a smash. "How long," mused L'Express, "has it been since L'Opéra de Paris has offered its public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos...
Dragooning a Voice. "Journalism is the most fascinating of all professions," Beaverbrook once wrote, "and if I had my time over again, I would give my whole life to it." But nearly half his life lay behind him when he bought the London Daily Express in 1916, not to turn journalist but to dragoon a public voice for his political ambitions. The self-made Canadian multimillionaire aspired to nothing less for himself than a tenancy at No. 10 Downing Street, nothing less for England than perpetuation of the British Empire. Both dreams went glimmering. He could take a strong hand...
There were compensating rewards. The Express, a pale failure when Beaverbrook bought it, grew under his kinetic stewardship into a popular giant of 4,300,000 circulation; its pages provided all Fleet Street with daily lessons in the craft of journalism. When World War II began, Britain's Finest Hour was also his; as Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production, he put up the cloud of Spitfires that saved the day. These and other accomplishments invested him with the quality of living legend. "Positive, bee," wrote a columnist in a Canadian paper, "comparative, Beaver; superlative, Beaverbrook." Sir Beverley...