Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
...than grand departures, and cults of aficionados armed with phonograph records travel in their wake. Thelonious Monk's cult, whispering of Webern, insists that the silences in his music are even more profound than the sounds. Miles Davis' cult, transfixed by his trumpet, says nothing, preferring to express its worship in utter silence. But the cultists that follow John Lewis and his Modern Jazz Quartet see themselves as the True Believers...
...soon tamed. Lou took him on soulful walks through the woods, discussing the great themes of life; but whenever Nietzsche proposed an earthier relationship, Lou balked. She soon left him for the more placid Ree; the embittered Nietzsche, so Peters says, wrote his prose-poem Thus Spake Zarathustra to express his resentment of all womankind. Ree, however, fared no better than Nietzsche. For five years he lived with Lou as "brother and sister" and was known among his friends as Lou's "maid of honor." Nothing better expressed the relationship of the two philosophers to Lou than a photograph...
...senior year Herbert lived alone. He wrote his honors thesis. Only now did he come to realize how much precision was demanded of the man who would express himself as befits a scholar, and how onerous were the burdens of composition. First, there was the matter of terminology: his field (economics) had no shortage of scientific words, which, since they represented the collected wisdom of the discipline, must be not only used but totally assimilated as well. Soon he was thinking in terms of maximized efficiency, input-output ratios, and consumer indifference curves. Second, there was the need to guard...
Britain's Interests. The charge of pro-German sympathies has often been made against the German-descended Duke of Windsor, most notably after the publication of other captured Nazi documents five years ago. The London Daily Express dismissed the late Duke of Coburg's account as having no value as evidence because "he was a Nazi, spreading news he knew would be welcome in Berlin...