Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...View, New Facts. By noon, Simons was up to about 102,000 ft. (exact height is still being checked) and looked upon a view no man had seen before. The horizon was 400 miles away. Overhead the sky was dark. The earth was a lifeless blob delicately dissected by rivers and lakes. Reported Sightseer Simons: "It was as though all the color had been washed...
...with an IQ of 80." Nor should the nation lean on the educationists, for most of them are not the sort of educational philosophers that are needed. Just where such philosophers would come from no one can say, but, says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete or coherent form, this view "is based upon our concept of freedom and opportunity for all, and upon our conviction that the individual must accept a large measure of responsibility for his own development and his own behavior...
...become a corrosive, nonstop monologuist with a tongue like a poisoned dart. Some of his more sardonic thrusts are directed at the Roman Catholic faith, which his wife Marjorie, a guilt-ridden sensualist of masochistic tendencies, is about to embrace. The bitterness of his remarks, including his view of his wife's imminent conversion as a "peace-at-any-price panic," will doubtless help make By Love Possessed a "controversial" novel...
...People." A typical day in the Cozzens' Lambertville house (bought in 1933, but soon to be abandoned because Cozzens fears that impending power lines will spoil his valley view) unreels with near monastic austerity. Daily except Sunday Cozzens rises at 5:15 a.m., brews a pot of tea for himself and fixes coffee for Bernice, who gets up at 5:45. In his 1957 station wagon he drives Bernice to the Trenton station for an early train to Manhattan, then returns for a breakfast of scrambled eggs, orange juice and milk. He works from 8 to noon...
...Classical View. The typical Cozzens hero is devoid of heroics, bent not on expressing himself-like the protoplasmic Lennies, the torturedly egocentric Eugene Gants-but on knowing himself. Contrasting "romanticism" and "classicism," the English critic T. E. Hulme once wrote: "To the one party, man's nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never...