Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result is that many a televiewer firmly believes in the existence of Overlook, Verdict's fictitious small city (pop. 125,000), its malefactors and martyrs, its country club and Skid Row, the awful goings-on at the outlying Mountain View Inn. Recalls Director Paul: "One of our lawyers got a long-distance call from a Cleveland woman. She wanted to pay his poor client's legal...
...takes a no-nonsense view of his own playing, grows rapturous when he thinks he is in form ("Faultless!"), but can be equally tough on himself when he thinks he is not ("Did you ever hear such lousy piano playing in your whole life?"). He can be equally hard on other players; e.g., he scorns Sergei Prokofiev's old recording of his own Third Concerto: "Sorry, but it's just not Russian...
...need for friendly persuasion by an understanding doctor is shared by almost every adolescent. Usually, just when he becomes most conscious of mysterious aches and pains, the teen-ager finds himself medically a displaced person. His parents often brush off his vague complaints as "growing pains." Many doctors view adolescents, who have the lowest mortality rate from illness of any group, as uninteresting cases. When adolescents fall ill because danger signals have been ignored, says Ephebiatrician Roth, "they feel too old for the pediatrician and too young for the internist...
...sponsored in 1954 was an "honest" tax cut, said Humphrey, because it was covered by savings in Government spendings. But present tax cut proposals are "dishonest" because they involve bigger Government deficits. Humphrey's formula for curing the recession: "Keep your shirt on." Against this view, Fred Lazarus Jr., chairman of Federated Department Stores, argued for a tax cut to stimulate consumer buying now. Thomas McCabe, president of Scott Paper Co. and onetime Federal Reserve chairman, urged Government leaders to "turn on the juice" by authorizing a tax cut when it is needed...
Most students, like Rolf Goetze, manager of the Refreshment Agency, view the ten per cent as an "assessment." Not many, however, are aware that in return for the assessment, each agency receives a certain amount of insurance, standardized records and a general accounting system, secretarial services, credit strength of the corporation to assist in borrowing, and use of office facilities...