Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earl E. T. Smith, new Ambassador to Cuba, who infuriated Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista by putting out a statement criticizing police mistreatment of Cuban women demonstrators. Said Dulles: "I want to say that it is a statement which, perhaps, from a purely technical point of view, may not have been perfectly correct. But it was a very human statement. I'm glad that we have some, in fact I hope many, ambassadors who are not mere automatic machines but who do have sentiments of humanity which they sometimes express without regard, perhaps, to the diplomatic niceties...
...activities. By that time, under the name of Emil Goldfus, Colonel Abel, the shy spy with the chameleon gift of protective coloration, had rented as headquarters a tiny, $35-a-month studio in a run-down brick building on Brooklyn's drab Fulton Street, within full view of the U.S. Attorney's office...
...have known that the Holy See is unalterably opposed to all forms of racial discrimination and that it has interpreted segregation as discrimination. "It is utterly disquieting," said a member of the Holy Office, "that there should be Catholics so ignorant of Christian doctrine and fundamentals. The only charitable view one can place on the request is that those who uttered it have some difficulty in mentally understanding the doctrine of the Church -or else ignore it altogether...
After praising Guthrie's idea of the theatre, Johnston went on to criticize Lee Strasberg. "Strasberg sees the theatre from the point of view of the idealist, and has quite an unrealistic picture of what the medium of the theatre actually is. He seems to be under the impression that the theatre has something to do with life--by citing for us the French company of Cannes and the classic theatre of Japan, two schools that have nothing to do with 'method' acting. To say that the goal of acting is a perfect photograph of human behavior...
...high (4% above last year), and steel production was edging up in anticipation of fall buying. Reported Boston's First National: "Confidence in the fall outlook remains firm, despite the low visibility and the lack of any clearly discernible trend in production." Many forecasters were taking an optimistic view of the second half, said Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank, because of the economy's natural pattern of growth and several specific expectations. Among them: an auto upsurge when 1958 models come out, a rise in residential construction, a retail-sales boost as rising personal income sparks...