Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defending the biracial system, he said, Mississippi has erected a "totalitarian society" that blocks change and causes social paralysis. "Thus the Mississippian, who prides himself on his individuality, lives in a climate where nonconformity is forbidden, where the white man is not free, where he does not dare to express a deviating opinion without looking over his shoulder...
...terrific roar, and the line vanished from sight behind a spouting column of black dust and smoke." So wrote T. E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of his World War I dynamiting raids on the Hejaz Railway, the 782-mile "pilgrim express" whose single track linked Damascus with the Islamic holy city of Medina. Lawrence of Arabia reduced most of the line to a snarl of sprung steel and splintered ties. Nearly half a century of desert winds and systematic depredation have done the rest. Bedouins ransacked the abandoned stations, pried loose wooden ties for cooking fires. In Medina...
Erhard cannot merely squash these critics. They are quite strong within the party and obviously express the sentiment of many Germans. Instead, Erhard must clarify his realignment within the Common Market. He must assure his opponents that a pro-U. S. economic policy has no bearing on the future of West Berlin or East Germany...
...history of 19th century costume shows quite the same dependence on the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the rococo period, Catherine de Medici and James II. In the architecture of our own time, the compulsion to expose structure to view, to suppress applied ornament and emphasize texture, to express class through refinements of structure-these modes of thought are just as evident in women's clothing. The creators of the unpatterned, severely structured, richly textured dresses of our own era inevitably think in a way that also produced the United Nations Building...
...back, Churchill sued. In 1956 he recovered $14,000 in damages from The People, a Sunday paper that had called him a "paid hack." Five years later, Churchill, by then appearing in the News of the World, implied that much the same could be said of the Daily Express' political editor. The World settled that suit out of court...