Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...November 18 meeting to all students. Why not let all students come--if not to speak to the committee members then at least to hear what's being said? It's the very least the committee could do to maintain its charade of inclusion. The council should empatically express at once its dissatisfaction with the terms of the meeting to the search committee...
...Lincoln, Kerrey received an early baptism in political discourse around the dinner table. The discussions "were always issue-oriented," recalls his sister, Jessie Rasmussen. "Never partisan. To this day I don't know if our parents were Republicans or Democrats." The younger Kerreys were taught by example to express and adhere to their beliefs. Before the 1960 presidential election, a dinner guest argued heatedly that if John Kennedy won, the Pope in reality would be running the country. When James Kerrey, Bob's father, persistently rejected the notion, the angered guest bolted out of the house...
Freud hoped that his mind science would teach people how to love and to work. Like most great notions, this one is simple to express but difficult to realize. Just how difficult is the subject of Richard Rhodes' account of his deprived childhood and struggle to escape its consequences. It is a story of modest dimensions but classic proportions, involving orphans, a wicked stepmother, lifesaving benefactors and years of psychoanalysis. It is a story that is painful to read and hard to put down...
...like to express our regret," declared the editorial in last week's Wall Street Journal worldwide, "that we are suspending our remaining circulation in the Republic of Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had already < been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued...
...book climbed the charts, Burrough pondered what to write about next. "I moped around for quite a while," he recalls, "thinking I wouldn't find anything that interested me as Barbarians had." But before long, he was probing the story behind American Express's extraordinary campaign against Safra, which ended last year when the company apologized to the banker and paid $8 million in damages to him and his favorite charities. "I told my agent and publisher that I was working on something that could be the next book," says Burrough. When the Journal published his 10,000-word account...