Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climate in which Soviet geopoliticians and missilemen are likely to forge ahead. Basically, the soft line is based on the proposition that further armament and continued tension will speedily become intolerable-for the West-and that compromise must be achieved no matter what the cost. Furthermore, in the view of some soft-line advocates, Russia is ahead politically and militarily anyhow, so it is time to make a deal...
...welfare and unemployment-benefit programs. In short: more pay, less work. When the economy was booming, Reuther had called for wage boosts to catch up with higher prices. Now, with the economy slumping, he called for wage boosts as the cure for a recession caused-in the official A.F.L.C.I.O. view-by a lack of purchasing power...
Above Pride. At week's end Greece failed to muster a two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly for a resolution which urged further negotiations "with a view to have the right of self-determination applied in the case of the people of Cyprus." The U.N. rejection touched off new rioting...
...study sociology. His biggest problem: Moslem competition. Says he: "Both African and Asian Moslems in the diocese accumulate wealth and slowly extend their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls." Bishop Kiwanuka's second biggest problem: African nationalism, which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship. Under Bishop Kiwanuka's leadership, 62,503 converts have joined his flock. "Even the young girls seduced into Moslem homes usually cling to their Catholic faith...
...worshiped Raphael, pored over gothic sculpture and illuminations, spent seven years as an apprentice engraver, and recommended endless copying of nature as the only means to transcend it. "The bad artist seems to copy a great deal," he wrote. "The good one really does." Instead of the common modern view that painting ought to be an end in itself, he considered art merely a means of showing "truth." And by "truth" Blake meant his own spiritual insights and occasional visions...