Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margot Fonteyn-Dame Commander of the British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...turned spaceman, sees such projects in simpler terms. Says he: "The satellite is a natural extension of rockets, which are natural extensions of planes and balloons, which are natural extensions of man's climbing trees and mountains in order to get up higher and thus have a better view...
...question of the Godkin Lectures, the Governor was non-committal for the first time during the morning. All he would say was that Nationalism, in his view, is becoming obsolete, that it doesn't go in a nuclear-power world. Considering Munoz' unique achievement in the field of applied political theory, his views on the subject should be well worth the trip to Sanders Theatre...
Points of View is no potboiler. There are five essays on subjects not precisely calculated to appeal to the old master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature rather than by struggle against...