Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having lived in China for eleven years, including more than a year under Communist rule, my wife and I want to express our appreciation of your splendid article on "Red China: The Arrogant Outcast." We have also been grateful for other articles on China in preceding issues...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball flew in to Rawalpindi last week to express chagrin over Pakistan's budding friendship with Red China, he got a quick and bitter taste of the nation's new mood. No fewer than five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled...
...with Passion. But even running four newspapers-the Express, the Sunday Express (a separate newspaper), the Evening Standard and the Glasgow Evening Citizen-cannot absorb the Beaver's tremendous energies. Only this spring he took a second wife, the former Lady Dunn, widow of a lifelong friend. He was as excited as the youngest swain. "I am very glad to get her," he said. "It isn't often when you get 84, and find yourself still interesting to a woman." He has just published his twelfth book, The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George. Like most...
...temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices, the very foundation of my strength and vigor." When a new acting managing editor was hired for the Daily Express in 1961, the proprietor had ionic characteristic advice: "Passion. That's the thing. I don't care what you put in the paper," he said, "so long as you say it with passion...
...Journalism is the most fascinating of all professions," he has said, and although his years may counsel him to let younger men take over, he argues with that decision too. "Goodbye for ever," he told the Express staff sadly, in November 1927. No one believed him. No one believed him in 1948 either, when he retired once more. "It's been an annual event for 20 years," said his son Max, who as an R.A.F. group captain flew the fighter planes his father built, and who will one day, if he lives long enough, inherit the Beaverbrook crest...