Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I asked my husband why he did not quit smoking in view of all the adverse reports about it, he said he needed "something of value" to replace it. What do you suggest...
...even fondness at our historic brother, the Jew." And Catholics would do well to imitate more closely the Jews' "burning thirst for justice." He quotes Jewish Writer Israel Zangwill: "Take from me the hope that I can change the future, and you will send me mad." Catholics view the future from a different perspective, writes Davis, "but it would be well if we could view it as intensely and hopefully...
...Emetic "We." Academician Bergen Evans, an English professor at Northwestern who doubles as the question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it. It is usually Critic Brown who is the first to cry Fowler. Both quick-witted, the two men also strike sparks with contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women...
...these home truths from abroad did not surprise Philadelphians, it was because the story carried the byline: "Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia." On a month's vacation in Europe that ended last week, Democrat Dilworth wrote a series of mayor's-eye-view stories for the Inquirer that found a moral for the home folks almost every place he visited. Describing the rebuilt sections of West Berlin, for example, Yaleman Dilworth said they offer "conclusive proof of how essential it is to the health and well-being of a large city to have ample, well-planned open space...
...refusal to melodramatize a situation whose inherent horror needs no melodrama. There is enough prosaic terror as Don, with slow, agonized self-abasement, reveals the nature of his sickness to his wife and father. A tour of an opium den could not carry the powerful conviction of this view into an ordinary living room...