Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...South Carolina the voter has had to make his choice in full public view. Each party had its own ballot, and the voter picked up the one he wanted from the Republican or Democratic stack on an open table. Last week Governor J. Strom Thurmond signed a bill giving South Carolina voters for the first time a privilege that citizens of the other 47 states have long enjoyed-a single, secret ballot...
...lean, tense-looking man in his mid-30s walked into Manhattan's Edison Hotel, just off Broadway, and registered for a room. He specified that it must overlook 47th Street. Once upstairs, he walked quickly to the window, looked down on the street below, satisfied himself that the view was right, then turned away and began to pace the floor, chainsmoking cigarettes. Finally he settled down to a vigil at the window. With alert brown eyes he watched the bustling traffic on the sidewalks. How many of the passers-by would stop at the Ethel Barrymore Theater across...
...Very Young Man" is more technique than drama. Gertrude Stein is examining "all the different points of view of a Frenchman's mind"; she is much less concerned with a story that must have a beginning and an end. Though moments of dramatic interest appear occasionally, "Yes Is For a Very Young Man" is really only a play on a series of well-repeated words and situations...
...Double Crisis," which gives a dreary Mathusian view of an overpopulated, starving world, is an unsatisfying conclusion to the volume. The change from a critical to a vaguely constructive approach afflicts Mr. Huxley's usually confident style with a certain awkwardness. And most of his observations and proposals are either aged or admittedly impractical, leaving an impression of dilettantism which one does not receive from the critical works in this volume...
...year-old report, titled "Harvard Education, 1948: The Student's View," was planned for a limited distribution, but the demand for the first two editions was so great that a third printing has become necessary...