Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...belief that the world is round and an admiration of the statesman's "view of all the world...
...other pedants who say that when the monk Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th Century began the fashion of counting years from the birth of Christ, he missed from one to seven years. So the year 1900 may have been really 1901 or 1907.) In pedantic Boston, the 1901 view prevailed. On Jan. 1, 1901 throngs gathered on the Common to hear a moral discourse by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, author of the patriotic tear-squeezer The Man Without a Country. In those days the fate of Kale's pathetic character, Philip Nolan, was regarded as uniquely dreadful...
...Brotherism? This sounded like the smuggest predictions of 1900-but there was a difference. By 1950 men had learned (or half-learned) that progress was neither automatic nor irreversible. Slichter was talking about what might happen, not about what would necessarily happen. An equally plausible view of the future was given in another mid-century prediction, George Orwell's satiric Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...Shaw made one concession: he reluctantly agreed to shave his usual royalty from 15% to 10%. Yielding to the argument that the production would be expensive in view of the two stars' salaries, he cautioned: "I am depending on you not to make your salary list so heavy that the play will have to be taken off in a fortnight unless it attracts capacity every time . . . When negotiating with stars, remember that in my case, I am the star ... So few managers know their own business that I mostly have to make their bargains for them as well...