Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This type of course preserves coherence and completeness at the expense of a broad view and general interest which the non-concentrator looks for. But even the concentrators would benefit from considering together the now-divorced writers, such as Fielding, Swift, and Johnson, without having to wade through the 17th Century romances and 18th Century letter-writers as well...
Then, as the formalities began, somebody shoved a microphone in view...
...Canterbury, had a heartwarming spiritual reflection. "Stalin was a rough and stern man," mused the Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive, and Christ isn't, so it's only natural that they should...
...Connecticut insuranceman, might have seemed sheer Mandarin to most of his clients-but not to a Chinese. Chinese painters ignore the iron bonds of perspective (which imply a stationary viewer and make the picture frame a sort of window frame) and strive instead for the stroller's leisurely view...
...gold, moving to the subtle, silk-smooth music of the painter's brush. The almost full-scale detail opposite shows a typical climax in that music when the invading army winds menacingly forward to the water's edge, a captain on a black horse prances into view, and a gnarled pine dips its obscuring wing. The detail further shows that Chinese scroll paintings can be enjoyed a little at a time, as was intended. Ideally, the viewer unrolled the scroll from his left hand, very slowly, while rolling it up again with his right. Thus the scroll should...