Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomson," reported London's Sunday Express stiffly, had been to Moscow and had talked to the Soviet Premier. That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...
...State Department was aware of McNamara's moves throughout the time leading up to his announcement. As early as November 19th, however, Aviation News and Space Technology reported that the Department of Defense was planning to cancel Skybolt. Agents of the State Department sit in the Pentagon for the express purpose of relaying news of projects in the Defense Department in order to study their effect on foreign policy. Besides, we must assume that McNamara is an extraordinarily naive man to formulate and execute such an important decision by himself...
While the purposes of such publications diverge, all face certain basic dilemmas. One of their implicit functions, for example, is to provide a forum for undergraduates and graduate students who are not in a position to express themselves in professional journals or national media. Yet to limit one's pages to student writings may mean to accept inferior works in lieu of the better ones which faculty members and outside writers might submit if given an opportunity. The problem is complicated by a tendency of students, given a limited amount of reading time, to prefer articles by "authorities...
...public, the Governor was allowed to express himself unhampered, on the dangers he sees facing state sovereignty. In private, at the Faculty Club reception, for Forum members following his address, his assertions of racial differences were respectfully received, if not accepted...
...pleases in front of a camera and most of the time do it better than any American cinemactor of his generation. In this picture Lemmon starts out as a gay and gloriously funny falling-down drunk; as his disease progresses he regresses with a ferocity few players could express and fewer still control; at the climax he is simply a maniacal infant screaming for his bottle...