Word: view
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other words, in Cabot's view, when a company, or the Harvard Management Company for that matter, is oblivious to potentially explosive social or moral issues, it will run into financial difficulties. The Management Company, therefore, keeps tabs on the activities of the ACSR to foresee any social and financial problems that may confront an investment...
...view from the Lebanese side is strikingly different, as TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis discovered when he visited the area last week with Beirut Reporter Abu Said Abu Rish. Brelis' report...
...pictures flashed onto the screen, the tension eased. After a journey of 6½ years, the small unmanned Pioneer 11 spacecraft was fast approaching Saturn, whose image was being sent back with more clarity than could be obtained by any earth-bound telescope. One especially intriguing view, taken by the robot from a distance of 3.2 million km (2 million miles), showed both the giant ringed planet, a huge gaseous sphere 815 times larger than earth, and its major moon, Titan, where scientists have not entirely given up hope of finding evidence of primitive life forms. Pioneer also radioed data...
...most students the book will represent their main chance of learning about U.S. history. For their middle-aged parents, such titles bring back memories of George Washington with an inked-in mustache, and their own introduction to a unified, changeless heritage: a view of America shaped by its great men, sealed against doubt, rocklike in the conviction of national righteousness...
These dramatic exits and entrances are described in America Revised (Little, Brown; $9.95), a heavily researched book due out this fall. Its author, Frances FitzGerald, 38, examines America's view of itself as reflected in school history texts going back more than a century. Her conclusion: the once familiar tapestry of American history, long Waspish, pious and upbeat, has been ripped apart and converted into a glum, pluralistic patchwork. America and its view of the past are now changing so rapidly that few American schoolchildren in the future will share any common attitude toward their country's history...