Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cordial, and it helped both Kennedy and the businessmen to understand each other's problems better. Most, but by no means all, of the businessmen favored an immediate tax cut. The businessmen told Kennedy that they liked his new depreciation schedule (see BUSINESS), but took the opportunity to express some complaints right to his face. They asked Kennedy why he had so many Harvard-men around him (Kennedy chuckled), deplored the aggressiveness of the Government's trustbusters, criticized the Administration's penchant for becoming involved in so many collective-bargaining disputes and its habit of making...
...many doctors, the incident is becoming distressingly familiar. A child, usually under three, is brought to the office with multiple fractures-often including a fractured skull. The parents express appropriate concern, report that the baby fell out of bed, or tumbled down the stairs, or was injured by a playmate. But X rays and experience lead the doctor to a different conclusion: the child has been beaten by his parents. He is suffering from what last week's A.M.A. Journal calls "the battered-child syndrome...
Probably the most important single factor in Faulkner's success as an artist lies in his ability at once to express a particular culture and state of mind peculiar to the American South and to give that expression universal validity through his art. The impress of the Southern consciousness upon Faulkner's works cannot be erased. The philosophical longing for an ideal society long vanished and the painful consciousness of the attrition of the remaining institutions of that society reflect a state of mind that at its most eloquent, approaches the Romantic lament for a lament which has progressed...
Vicious Circle. In his letter to Kennedy, Rockefeller expressed confidence "that the thoughts I express are shared widely within the financial and business community, both here and abroad." To help solve the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit, he suggested several measures, among them cutting military expenditures abroad, tying more foreign aid to U.S. exports, pushing an export drive, and keeping interest rates firm, or even raising them, to attract investment by foreign capital. But the heart of the problem, said Rockefeller, was the general posture of the U.S. economy, in which he saw "a vicious circle of events; namely...
...critic described it, "his bland Oriental smile." According to the columns, when his brother later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright Home looked down in anger. "Critics," he said...