Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Depending upon the point of view, the civil rights legislation of the '60s was either the salvation or the ruin of American democracy. Fact is, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission charged in a report scheduled for release this week, the statutes have fulfilled neither prophecy. The Government has not enforced the laws vigorously enough to make them matter. Instead, it has been discriminatory business as usual for federal contractors and licensees...
...trend are two basic elements: Russia's vigorous activity in the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, and a growing conviction in the White House that Moscow is deliberately testing President Nixon's-and the nation's-mettle. In the Administration's view, the Kremlin is probing everywhere, seeing how far it can get at a moment when the U.S. is intent on drastically reducing its commitments abroad...
...prize and in the later stages was reviled by party-lining writers as, among other things, "a pig who fouled the spot where he ate." The Solzhenitsyn affair, however, is potentially far more serious. Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was less a political novel than a lyrically philosophical view of the effects of the Revolution on the lives of people. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn's main works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) are explicit descriptions of the day-by-day degradation that some 16 million Russians unjustly underwent in prisons and concentration...
...hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets," said Napoleon. "Politicians and political types invariably regard the press as an implacable enemy," President Johnson's onetime press secretary, George E. Reedy, told an audience of Princeton University students last week. A U.S. President "tends to view attacks upon himself as attacks upon the country," said Reedy. "L.B.J. could pull out a mental file drawer in which he had catalogued every major sin by anyone who had ever held a pencil...
...whose face turns people to stone. When he saw a painting of Medusa in Florence he called it "the head of a Madonna created by purgatory." He made a paper-cutout version of the Medusa's head, and pasted it onto a page in conjunction with a printed view of the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome...