Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While much bickering among themselves is not altogether uncharacteristic of their calling, these critics have formulated this view in a spirit of remarkable unanimity. On the basis of wide travel in Europe and other estoeric locations, they contend that the four mettropolitan areas they praise possess some sort of cultural maturity they find lamentably lacking in other thriving centres, such as Tulsa, Toronto or Topeka...
MacLennan tells his story from the point of view of an introverted, slightly vain, mildly successful man of public affairs--George Stewart...
Eisenhower went along to a degree with the view of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that Khrushchev is the man with whom to try to do business on easing world tensions and solving the Berlin crisis...
...went on to critcize the fact that "the ordinary student of history is still too often kept away from the subject because he has inherited too limited a view and thinks that he knows the main lines of scientific history already...
...Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights on the publishing business. In one scene, an ambitious junior editor is building up an awful novel to please a top publisher ("who wore knickers to the office and had only Wall Street friends"). The big man rewards him with: "I think...