Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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John D. Pratt, a first-year MBA candidate who originally suggested the survey, said last night that the questionnaire would both "express our concern about these social issues as prospective members of the business community and gather information for people about to be recruited by these companies...
Readers' letters constantly activate other readers' pens-sometimes in friendship, sometimes otherwise. Another type of response is elicited by this column when we report on the joys and jeopardies encountered by individual staff members in preparing stories. Routinely, old friends who have lost touch become reunited. Professors express surprise that former economics or biology students now review films or cover Asian affairs. Marriage proposals and political challenges are commonplace...
Middle Americans express respect for moderate black leaders like Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young?which is easy enough. Middle Americans would generally like to see the quality of black education improve. But the idea of sacrificing their own children's education to a long-range improvement for blacks appalls them. "They moved to the suburbs for their children, to get fresh air and find good schools," says Frank Armbruster. But programs such as bussing "negated all their sacrifices to provide their children an education...
...eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well-remembered films, among them Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Scarlet Empress...
...Keep in mind that the primary purpose of words is not to express meaning but to pump adrenalin. Use active, blood-tingling verbs like "smash" or "liberate." If anybody disagrees with you, call him imperialist, authoritarian or at least manipulator for the power elite...