Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Hanford's view according to his 1942 report, the object of a liberal arts education is to "furnish students with an idea of the accumulated culture and experience of the human race, show them the continuity of the present with the past, and provide them with some understanding of the complicated world in which they live...
Reader Menin's point of view on science and religion is unfortunate [TIME, May 12], and serves only to emphasize the point of TIME'S article on religious illiteracy...
Billy's column takes the broad view. One day he may deliver a cheap-seats catcall at international politicos; the next he may tool up an ancient vaudeville wheeze into a brisk short short. A sample of his grandest manner: "Even if we told them how, I don't think the Russians could make the atom bomb. . . . I gather it takes more than a cyclotron, some chemists, and a boy to run out for coffee. I don't think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn...
Bearing Down. From April 15 to May 15, the short interest on the New York Stock Exchange jumped about 30% to a total of 1,314,391 shares. It is now the highest since December 1945 and the rise was the sharpest since 1934. Despite this bearish view of the future, the New York Stock Exchange rallied from the year's low. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial averages were up over three points...
These whodunit movies are fast running to formula, but the chances are that in at least two respects they will continue to be better than most movies: 1) in their portrayal of the shabby, menacing beauty of U.S. cities (there is a breath-taking street view of a Los Angeles rooming house in Doubloon) and 2) in the minor players who, with only a minute or so to make their points, impersonate, with passionate proficiency, the deep-sea fish of the underworld...