Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paderewski cover rang the gong and succeeding ones convinced the editors that this was the kind of cover that more nearly typified TIME'S kind of journalism. In the beginning, Artist Baker set down his view of what he was trying to do. It is worth repeating here as the credo for a TIME cover...
...have to make the best defense we can of our most cherished social and historical values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...
...surface of the earth: "Those funny old days, when men went for a change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!" But when another character gets a brief look at the earth's surface, with all its imperfections, he sums up the Forsterian point of view: "For the first time . . . I felt that humanity existed, and that it existed without clothes. . . . It was naked . . . and all these tubes and buttons and machineries neither came into the world with us, nor will they follow us out, nor do they matter supremely while we are here...
...also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...
...athlete of reality would know, according to Edmond Taylor, that journalists, political scientists and diplomats have built up a mythical picture of the political world: 1) by talking about issues instead of human beings, 2) by looking at the world from the distorting point of view of U.S. interests, 3) by creating a belief in "the certitude of certainty...