Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged that universities view in their proper perspective the pressures from industry, government and the professions to train college graduates for these careers. Although educated men can be valuable in these fields, he said, a university must remember that "it is first of all an association of scholars...
Fund raisers will also have a chance to view three colored slide shows recently prepared by members of the Program staff to help "sell" the drive. Fifty sets of slides have been ordered on "A Matter of Curiosity," depicting scientific research at the University; "The Money Tree," a set of pictures on the future of the Program; and "The Future of Harvard," a documentary of the "new Harvard." The photographs will be used chiefly by area chairmen in personal alumni contacts...
...great biography of Marlborough, Winston Churchill spoke of Sarah's "detached, disdainful, modern outlook upon life"; she resembled, he said, the sort of woman busy "in the public and social agitations of our own day." Author Kronenberger seems to agree with that view. "She was not at all, by happy standards, a great woman," he concludes, but she was forever so "inextinguishably herself" that she "persists even now." Moreover, she was like a great landmark in England's history-the last example of a nation that was changing "from a society of thieves to a nation of shopkeepers...
With a brilliant eye for contrast, he leaves these "resurrected" to describe a nearby cemetery where 8.000 mummies are on view, dating from the 16th century to as late as 1920, and including priests, professors, young virgins, even "an American consul with a big black mustache." The book is at its best in an account of how New York City's Mayor Vincent ("Mr. Impy") Impellitteri returned to his native village in 1951. With no blasphemous intent, Levi describes the visit in the way some of the simpler Sicilians might have seen it-as the story of the Saviour...
...should also attract a host of auditors on opening day, even from among those who have long transcended the elementary stuff. Clambering up the Gropius-bleachers in Burr A gives one a chance to view both Sputnik-spotting Dr. Hynek, and cigarette-dangling Payne-Gaposchkin, Harvard's first woman professor, world authority on variable stars, and beloved eccentric of the first order...