Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Jefferson and Hamilton; each a luminous representative of his own view of life; each essential for the health of the republic; and each forever opposed to the other. It is doubtful it in all their lives they could have found one point of agreement, except the need for American independence. They wore such perfect opposites that to this day most Americans make a cult of one or the other; few are able to do justice to both...
Agar's optimistic view of the efficacy of the American party system faces its real test in the Civil War; and on this point he averts criticism by staging bluntly that the party and political system failed, for the only time, in the emotional and moral crisis...
...great number of Professor Beach's poems describe people. Critics have called him a pessimist, but he insists that he really takes a bright view of human nature. He says that although his poems depict suffering and failure, they nevertheless are full of genial appreciation of the game of life. "Human beings have a moral residuum that makes them worthwhile, even though, like the pitchblende from which radium is extracted, they appear pretty worthless at times...
...study of the Communist Party is being conducted "not only from the point of view of the political scientist but also from those of the economist, psychologist, and sociologist." Thus such studies as "party Policies in Literature" and "An Interpretive Study of Marxist Method" take their place alongside specialized investigations of purely political events...
Among the most important work in this section is Raymond A. Bauer's study of "the conception of man in Soviet psychology." This is expected to shed light on the Russian government's official view of the nature...