Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that. Pan Am makes a small portion of its profit by shipping dead servicemen home from Vietnam. But it does not necessarily follow that Harvard must dump Pan Am or face charges of war profiteering. To ask that would require a highly simplified and unrealistic view of the situation, one in which Harvard's tiny bole of shares could control Pan Am policy and Pan Am could control the conduct...
...moral overview, which recognizes the effect of governmental policies on other people, that the man lacks. So far few reviewers and audiences have shown their ability to connect Devereux's schizophrenie shallowness to the political murders he indirectly commits. Whatever powers Hitchcock at seventy may have lost, his view of America's moral illness remains correct...
Amid all the partying along the 100-mile-wide umbra of total darkness stretching from Mexico toward Florida and northward to Nantucket Island, the jammed hotels and motels included serious amateur scientists carrying altered telescopes and cameras to view or record the historic event without damage to eye or lens. The professionals took to high-altitude aircraft and isolated mountaintops to aim their instruments to best advantage. Out of Wallops Island, Va., NASA fired rockets rather than arrows into the heavens, seeking more precise knowledge of the phenomenon...
...York: "Mr. Nixon's policy toward Israel is very much in line with Jewish desires. In this case, it's all a matter of what is right and best for the country." Philip Hoffman, president of the American Jewish Committee, considers that the demonstrations represented the popular view. He guesses that they might prove "counterproductive" if they were to alienate the Administration, but adds: "I would hope that Mr. Nixon would not allow them to cause permanent pique...
...rest of society because of their affluence. Today's liberal is "a well-educated middle-class person with an immense feeling of security and status and an almost impervious conditioning. This has led to an extraordinary decline in the sensitivity of liberal political thinking. Liberals have come to view the working-class experience as somehow debasing, and that amounts to a debasement of the only experience most people have. I have the feeling that behind a great deal of liberal posturing is nothing more than a Tory will to power...