Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view, the risks are outweighed by the opportunities. If the Russians (as he said at his press conference) now show themselves to be "reasonable, logical men," the first reversal in the eleven-year-old East-West armaments race might be in sight...
...Prime Minister. Halifax, Chamberlain's choice, opened the discussion by declaring that as a peer, forbidden to enter the House of Commons, he could not hope to run the government effectively. Dryly he records that Chamberlain "reluctantly and Churchill, with evidently much less reluctance, finished by accepting my view...
...league Audience has stated its purpose in rather negative terms. The editors say it is not i.e., for i.e., was based on a false view of the community. It is not a magazine with a crusade. And it is not any of the other Quarterlies, because they are all pseudo-academic and dull. Audience's aims never become more positive than this, and we must infer them--its aims are to be psuedo-unacademic and, above all, undull. In attempting to avoid dullness the editors of Audience have collected a strange assortment of contributors including I. A. Richards and names...
...Britain, the courts still tend to view defamatory or contemptuous statements by newspapers more gravely than their American counterparts. British newspapers seldom win a libel suit; U.S. papers win at least as many as they lose. In the U.S., keyhole-peeping columnists are rarely sued for running exaggerated or even fabricated accounts of celebrities' loves and lapses. But privacy-proud Englishmen do not treat unfavorable stories as unworthy of notice-not to the extent of refraining from a promising libel suit...
This week in Manhattan, to celebrate Picasso's 75th birthday, the Museum of Modern Art is opening the most comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's works ever collected under one roof. On view for a summer-long show that takes over three whole floors are 328 paintings, sculptures and drawings, selected from 95 collections. Included are 31 works owned by Picasso, which can be distinguished by the fact that the old man, with a peasant's shrewdness, never signs a painting until it is sold...