Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founders," the new Secretary had said of the other two books, "represented many creeds, but most of them took a spiritual view of the nature of man. They believed that this nation had a mission to help men everywhere to get the great opportunity to be and to do what God designed . . . Freedom cannot be contained-it is all-pervading . . . It is the despots who should feel haunted. They, not we, should fear the future...
...Soviet Russia's masters of the mind, cultural exchange does not include much exchange for the artists who perform abroad. They are expected both to win their hosts' hosannas and return with the same dim view of the outside world as they had when they left. The formula: though Americans can be nice enough personally, their culture is starved, purposeless, oppressed, and altogether appalling...
Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder championed the view that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, he has been challenged to produce the substances in tobacco smoke (or tar) that do the damage. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Atlantic City, took Wynder's word for it that he has now run the number of tobacco-tar fractions capable of causing cancer up to eight, with the end not yet in sight...
POINTS OF VIEW (284 pp.)-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
...happens to very old writers when they stop writing? In the case of W. Somerset Maugham, now 85, he just goes right on writing. Over the past ten years he has regularly announced his retirement, and now he once more informs the world that his new book, Points of View, is "absolutely my last." A few critics will hope he means it; in longhair circles the old storyteller has almost never been ranked above a sound literary carpenter. Yet few professional writers can honestly say that they do not envy his easy style, his civilized yarner's gift that...