Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...bitterness and frustration notwithstanding, blacks in America express strong confidence that life is improving for them and will improve further in the days ahead. Sixty-four percent feel that things are "getting better than they were four to five years ago." Why? Seventy-seven percent say that "more blacks being admitted to college" has given them a great deal of hope; 70% cite "new kinds of jobs opening up for blacks" as a major cause of optimism; 63% see "great hope" in what they believe is the "rising racial pride among black people"; and 63% observe the same...
...best, the New Thing is indeed a mysterious and almost spiritual happening that occurs when the musicians are in tune with themselves and one another. "I'm an instant person," explains Trumpeter Cherry with gentle bluntness. "When something goes through me I want to be able to express it." What Cecil Taylor wants to express is often something akin to the presence of the Almighty. "In the West, God is to be bowed down to. But really, God is an energy that goes through you and lifts the performer into a higher plane than he could ordinarily achieve...
roller coaster through manhattan by underground express...
Rumbling through Illinois, over the old steel-truss bridge spanning the Mississippi River, the Cal Zephyr crosses trails once plied by the Pony Express. Onward it races through Iowa and Nebraska. In the cities, the tracks are rimmed by hulking warehouses, rusting automobile graveyards and smoking garbage dumps. Then, gradually, such signs as ROYAL KNITTING MILLS and BOECKER COAL & GRAIN, SINCE 1898 give way to BEER 10? SHOT 25? and COOP FEED. Suddenly, after a cluster of mobile homes, the train plunges into a great open expanse of farm lands...
...advice to newly arrived chief executives: "Fire the whole advertising department and your old agency." That is just what Townsend did on moving to Avis from American Express. He sought out Doyle Dane Bernbach. William Bernbach, the agency's chief, came up with a theme that did not entirely please anybody. The only honest statements he felt the ads could make were that the company was second largest and that its people were trying harder. ownsend agreed, and the rest is history...