Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farnsworth does not demonstrate that the psychiatric view offers us any new insights. He tells us to consider "the whole man", but this exhortation is neither helpful nor illuminating He notes that leaving home is often a traumatic experience, that exam period is a time of emotional stress, and that neurotic students often do badly since they cannot work effectively. Such insights are neither novel nor devastating...
While passing judgment, Judge Lack commented, "In view of the fact that he is attending college, he should have known better than to carry out such a prank...
...must take issue with your recent editorial, "Dust to Dust," proposing abolishment of the Student Council. This letter is a personal view and does not represent Council policy or members. Certainly some of the criticism is justified, on the basis of performance of individual Councils, but not on the basis of the Student Council as an institution...
...worth, tabloid Grit over the years has given a big play to pictures and success stories of persons grittily overcoming handicaps (sample subject: deaf children learning to talk), decorously avoided touchy topics from the Kinsey report to the Confidential trial. Such a dry-cleaned view of the news stems from Publisher Lamade's German-born father, Dietrick, who with two others bought the tiny, two-year-old paper in 1884 for $1,000, and until his death in 1938 exhorted his staff to "avoid showing the wrong side of things or making people feel discontented...
...Country Wife (by William Wycherley) exhibits a panoramic view of sex. Wycherley saw in sex the key to a whole faithless, pleasure-loving Restoration society-a society he exposed by unlocking one bedroom door after another, by unloosing a succession of farcically indecent pranks. The result is about equally crude and complicated in its bawdiness, is both wildly improbable and somehow too close for comfort, is now dated in its assumption, now faded in its effects. But what Critic William Archer once called "the most bestial play in all literature" is still, of its own kind, one of the best...