Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item was to provide a reserve for Taylor's entire investment of $1,142,902 in acquiring 85% of Holland's West-Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. West-Friesland is losing money-as Taylor predicted it would for at least five years. The other adjustments involved the bankrupt Yale Express System, which was being managed by DC, and West Coast Fast Freight, which is now under DC management...
...British novelists, though seldom adventurous in form, are insistently complex in content. In The Seahorse (Atheneum) by Anthony Masters, 24, progressive education in England gets a gruesome going-over. Masters' headmaster participates in creative play with his assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...
...Danger." As negotiations bumped along, the airlines stuck with the recommendations of the presidential board. But the I.A.M. negotiators refused to budge, in view of the carriers' record profits. Even though the machinists were ignoring his express wishes, the President flatly refused to intervene -though, in the nature of politics, he might have proved much less reluctant if the intransigent party had been management rather than labor. In an election year, the Administration is particularly leary of further antagonizing Big Labor, which has already voiced resentment over the Democrats' failure to get the bills that labor most coveted...
After Coe recovered from anesthesia, his first words were curses. Explains Neuropsychologist Aaron Smith: "Cuss words express feeling, not an idea. Communicating thoughts is more difficult." Soon Coe was able to communicate rational thoughts in short phrases. Today he still speaks slowly and leaves many sentences unfinished, but he can make himself understood unless he gets too tired...
Gentle in his comments, Schulberg urges his budding poets and playwrights to express their own personal experience of life in a black ghetto, spends much of his class answering such questions as, "Do you think the poem's finished?" or "How do I approach a publisher?" Even more than by the vivid quality of the work produced by his class, Schulberg is impressed by the way his writers cooperate and encourage one another. "I wouldn't have believed they would listen so intently to each other's work," he says. "They listen and are moved." In turn...