Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least encouraging features about the movie are the technical details involved. Sprawled across a wide screen the color appears blotched on. The whole spectacle closely resembles Salvador Dali's view of a Japanese print. The blurred effect of seeing one and one-half people on the screen kept patrons continually wiping their glasses...
...National Congresses, it was not likely that disaffiliation would frighten the 379 other member schools in the National Student Association into effecting these reforms. I added that all those familiar with the mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard and the NSA were certainly concerned at the move to disaffiliate. They view this as an abdication of the responsibility for leadership in national and international student affairs which Harvard has always stood...
...from foreseeing a further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say, the data suggest that exposure to whatever causes operate to produce leukemia (which nobody knows) has leveled off or actually decreased...
This current pop hit perfectly describes the view of man held by a new school of novelistless writers. From Cervantes to Hemingway, storytellers have assumed that man has hopes and aspirations, and that they could be expressed meaningfully. Bosh, says the new school. Man is a blob, creeping and leaping about a world he cannot control, his words meaningless or hypocritical or both. The best thing a novelist can do, the argument runs, is to ditch the novel as it is now known and write a new kind that shows man as the pitiable blob he is. Two new books...
...VOYEUR, by Alain Robbe-Grillet (219 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.75), is based on the author's notion that "the world is neither significant nor absurd. It is. That is the most remarkable thing about it." Proceeding from this Istentialist view, Author Robbe-Grillet, hero of Europe's avant-garde critics, has written a sort of whodunit in which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration...