Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...From a professional point of view, the most interesting thing that has happened to me is my metamorphosis from pressure law practice to almost total immersion in the problems of the medical profession...
Kazin is flatly wrong when he implies that my view of the Russian situation is one of emergent social and political problems on the heels of Stalin's death. I do not dispute that the creation and development of top-heavy Soviet Party machinery occurred under Salin's auspices. And I agree that Stalin's posture toward revolutionary movements in Spain and in China was cruel, self-interested, and entirely despicable...
...notebooks, Albert Camus once described the airplane "as one of the elements of modern negation and abstraction. There is no more nature . . . everything disappears. There remains a diagram-a map. Man, in short, looks through the eyes of God. And he perceives that God can have but an abstract view. This is not a good thing...
...Seeing the earth's doings in vast perspective is intended to make local pitfalls and disasters seem small and temporary. Yet Fuller's distant, denatured view, perceptive as it occasionally is, too much disregards what has happened to the face of the earth, to the rivers, the air-and the people...
...hormonal insecticides were to succeed, they would have to attack only one pest, while leaving the species' natural insect predators unharmed. Otherwise, hormones would be merely a more potent variety of DDT from an ecologist's point of view...