Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Todd said yesterday that after this first attack Yevtushenko wrote the Indiana Slavic Department to say that he still planned to come to the U.S. More recently, however, the publication in the Paris weekly newspaper L'Express of Yevtushenko's outspoken autobiography has redoubled the anger of Soviet officials...
President Nasser and President Kennedy have become close correspondents. "We are very frank with each other," says Nasser. "We don't exchange diplomatic words but express honest and frank opinions. I believe we have built up a confidence in each other." The confidence ex tends to U.S. Ambassador John Badeau, who speaks fluent Arabic and has unlimited access to Nasser, while his British counterpart sees Nasser only twice a year at formal meetings. The Communists are so convinced that the U.S. controls events in the Middle East that the Polish ambassador in Cairo stopped a U.S. diplomat...
Even more than Russians, Arabs express their folk wisdom in proverbs, ranging from the cautionary (see cover) to the racially skeptical ("Better the tyranny of the Turks than the justice of the Arabs"). There are proverbs aplenty to fit the dream of unity. To the ambitious Nasser, other Arab leaders might point out the one that says. "The camel driver has his plans, and the camel has his." But proverbs are eclipsed by power, and last week nothing was more certain than that whatever unity scheme emerges in the Middle East, must, first of all, be satisfactory to Gamal Abdel...
...vocal minority has represented them to be. Most students favor segregation, but few support discrimination (and the two can be separated). The majority supports a conservative interpretation of the Constitution, but few would advocate open defiance of court orders, especially after last fall's tragedy. Most students will express a concern at socialism being taught in the classroom, but few will support an effort to curb the free exchange of ideas among students and faculty...
...bank notes, it is a sort of job-lot treasurer that churns out paper money for 55 nations around the world, including Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt and Guatemala. From its presses last year 25 million stock certificates and 7.5 million bonds, all the travelers' checks for American Express and four other firms, corporate checks for more than 2,000 of the nation's largest firms, and postage stamps for 65 nations...