Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This was the view of nearly all British leaders, Tory, Liberal or Socialist. It was the view that French Premier Rene Pleven and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman had urged upon Attlee shortly before Attlee left for Washington. And it was the view that Attlee was urging upon Harry Truman in Washington this week...
...General Assembly would refuse to pass a strong resolution against Red China, or 2) many nations would abstain from voting on a strong resolution, thereby making it nearly meaningless even if passed. At Lake Success and in Washington, U.S. diplomats were busily polling and exploring other nations' views. As the week ended, the U.S. had not worked out a clear-cut view...
...meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London, Julian (On Living in a Revolution) Huxley gave his view of man's dilemma: "To all people at some time, and to many people much of the time, the world is an unpleasant and even horrible place, and life a trial and even a misery. Little wonder that many ideologies, religious or otherwise, are concerned with providing escapes from the unpleasant reality...
Third prize went to Manhattan's Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose works sometimes have the taste and balance of good Oriental art. His shrill, finicky Fish Kite did not. Joseph Hirsch's fourth-prizewinning view of Nine Men in a men's-room mirror was as skillfully done as anything in the show, and as dour. Hirsch had caught the cold light reflected from glass and white tiling, dramatically illuminated the begrimed and weary workmen cleaning up in its glare...
...they react to the atomic age much as their grandparents reacted to the times of Grover Cleveland. The local department-store owner builds prayer rooms for his customers and employees and sets up a profit-sharing plan. The newspaper publisher devotes his editorial page to the pacifist point of view. ("The world would have actually been better off if our nation had stayed out of both wars entirely.") The town's aging millionaire attacks greed and monopoly as the roots of all modern evil...