Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many decades powerful opinion held that the law stemmed not from fundamental, rational principles but rather from the needs of the day. In the complexities of modern life it became fashionable to hold that principles are as changeable as those needs. The U.S. lawyer who best symbolized this view was Oliver Wendell Holmes-the Magnificent Yankee. No one had a greater love of the law than Holmes, who sat on the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Although often in the minority, he was the inspiration of two generations of legal scholars who were in rebellion against a conservatism which...
...fellow can find himself and discover the "most meaningful truth." But even in this hallowed precinct, citizen-youth finds no peace, for in withdrawal, today's young people "are endangering society's future" because they are failing to cope with the issues of the cold war. Eventually, in the view of The Editor, history will force crisis upon "our generation" and "that will drive a spark in us to react to the problem...
...Jacob knows how to make a bronze face human-and interesting. The impressive garnering of Epstein's portraits, on view this week at Manhattan's James Graham & Sons gallery, offers convincing proof of his unique talent (see color page). The 19 bronze casts (the largest Epstein show in the U.S. in more than two decades) glow with richness, powerful psychological insight and sense of deeply observed human beings...
...maybe one of Detroit's big troubles is that it made its cars too well; they don't wear out fast enough. Let me read you something from London's Spectator. One of its writers, who has driven every sort of foreign car, gives his considered view of American cars as follows: "The reason I particularly like the Thunderbird is that everything works. Nothing goes wrong. Everything has a solid feel, all accessories seem to be infallible...
...Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero's tormented saga exalting without heroics or organ tones-or taking other than a dryly skeptical view of the traditional solace of religion. Taking adversity full face like a biting gust off his native fiords, the young hero of The Stars Grow Pale makes of his long day's journey into night a memorable voyage toward the inner light of selfdiscovery...