Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other major union meetings last week, the nation's mine workers (680,000 members) and railwaymen (370,000) took the same position. And over the BBC a somewhat chastened Frank Cousins made a promise of his own: should the Labor Party Conference next fall reject his view, he would go along with Gaitskell, who still seemed to be very much in control...
From an artistic point of view, the picture is exceptional. Words are used as if they cost money. Much of the story is told through the camera lens by hands, lips, eyes, gestures. The film could easily have been sensationalized. Restraint and tasteful selection should be credited to Robert Anderson, who did the script...
...will be marked by both closed and opened sessions. Scientists will join with leaders of industry, government, and education in an attempt to evaluate the influence of large organizations, such as universities and industrial and governmental laboratories, on the creativity of individuals and groups. The conferences, with a view toward increasing scientific creativity in America, will measure the extent of significant discoveries in their various fields and settings, and try to identify reasons for success and failure...
...when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them-and these qualities also mark him in his public life. And yet, says Author Mazo. "nothing about Nixon's public image is less accurate than the view of him as a cold fish...
Self-interest, in La Rochefoucauld's view, was clearly the carrot that made men trot, as money was later singled out by Balzac, and sex by Freud. Yet, in obsessively concentrating on one human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger...