Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to me that it is the essence of a democratic society, and not its negation, that limitations are imposed to protect the democratic order. . . . The greatest feature of our Bill of Rights is that it commands, and does not merely express what ought...
...review entitled "Veritas or Mishmash?" Boorstin attacked "the banality and intellectual timidity of the volume." He also criticized the book's "few vague themes" because they "express attitudes not uncommon nowadays among our self-conscious intellectuals" and "these attitudes can stultify our life...
...party boarded the S.S. Rotterdam, Tito got a noisy send-off from his own U.N. delegation and from a band of uninvited demonstrators. Exuding good will, the boss of Yugoslavia extended his best wishes to the American people "for their well-being and further progress, and also to express my hope that normal friendly relations marked by stability will prevail." With that, the gangplank was raised, the Rotterdam tooted goodbye, the pickets lowered their standards, and the U.S. State Department sighed with relief...
...would have the desired effect is doubtful. Charles de Gaulle, for one, has deprived NATO of some French troops on a considerably smaller pretense, and Britain, beset by balance-of-payments problems of its own, would gladly find excuses to pull back its Rhine army; already the London Daily Express advises its readers that if the U.S. can swiftly fly divisions across the Atlantic, it would be all the easier for Britain to perform the same stunt across the Channel...
...triumphant debut at Bayreuth last summer in a new production of Die Meistersinger, Schippers was offered the directorship of two European opera houses-a temptation that sorely tries him. "Conducting is not enough for me," he says. "I need a theater-a theater is the way I can express myself best. I want to live in the dirt of the theater." The dirt is denied him at the Met, where conductors have no responsibility for staging or direction, but Schippers is too much at home there now to leave easily. "I feel that the Met is my orchestra," he says...