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...point in doing things perfectly more than once. He left the imitating to his growing army of imitators. He began painting faces, tables and guitars from every angle, interlocking his various views of them in tight, infinitely complicated and almost unrecognizable compositions. Why paint from a single viewpoint, he argued, when you have legs to walk around the model and see it from behind as well as in front...
...From the viewpoint of University finances these proposed raises do involve a burden. But the Business Department can surely see the justice in paying the same wages for the same work. And it should not be too difficult to foresee the decline of many of the services of the College if the student help are not granted real and substantial assistance...
Allowing for a changed viewpoint since her pre-war days in Cambridge, Cynthia Brott observed that really, the Radcliffe girl hasn't changed very much. "Still the same interest in men--sparked considerably by the 'joint instruction' programme--the same indulgence in the social whirl, and the same maturing process as the old days." With Cambridge looking "worse than basic training with the millions of men," the Radcliffe interest in the opposite sex and consequent social whirl is understandable. The "maturing process," however, is a singular something Miss Brott, a biochemistry major, didn't work up in the laboratory...
...important questions TIME had to try to answer when we decided to convert our wartime International editions (set up to serve U.S. military needs) to civilian editions all over the world. We knew that the war had multiplied the curiosity of people everywhere about the U.S. and the U.S. viewpoint on practically everything. We also hoped that there was a demand for TIME abroad & beyond that of the thousands of foreign citizens who wrote us during the war asking how & when they could get TIME...
...position to claim all of Palestine as their own. They backed up their argument with threats, and the British, perhaps overestimating Arab capacity to cause trouble, backed down, stating that the additional British troops necessary to carry out large scale immigration made the plan unworkable from an Empire viewpoint...