Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year or two when Nigeria and Rhodesia, Britain's largest African possessions, assume full freedom. The process is continuous; the Commonwealth has many potential members. And if the 19th century sun never set on the Empire, the 20th century's satellites have a Commonwealth country always in view...
...school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public schools." Electrical Engineering Professor Henry Hartig praised "the discipline and memorizing" that Tommy's instruction involves compared with the public schools' tendency "to make things fun at whatever expense...
...Yugoslavia. Before Tito, he was Yugoslavian minister in Berlin when the Nazis declared war on his homeland. This book, his acknowledged masterpiece, was written during World War II while Andrić lived in retirement in Nazi-occupied Belgrade. It is richly peopled and suffused with an ironic yet loving view of man. To Andrić there is always the hope that "if they destroy here, then somewhere is building. If God had abandoned this unlucky town on the Drina, he had surely not abandoned the whole world that was beneath the skies. They would not do this forever...
...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. The author, who formerly concentrated on an agonized view of political epicycles, discusses cosmology from Ptolemy to Newton...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. In his latest last book, the writer, who ages like fine brandy, rambles thoughtfully about miscellaneous topics...