Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stephen Bunch, of 3310 Summit View Avenue, Yakima, Washington, a graduate of Yakima Senior High School...
...View Across an Ocean. In the long run, of course, the U.S. could no more ignore China than it could ignore Europe. But while the U.S. view of Europe had cleared rapidly, as winds from Moscow blew away delusions, the average intelligent American's picture of China was still composed of one part truth, one part pro-Communist propaganda and one part inevitable misunderstanding of a very different way of life. Americans thought something like this: "Chinese Communists are extremists, no doubt, but they have had more provocation than Communists in other countries. Chiang Kai-shek...
...away our pet customs and traditions before we can enjoy the fruits of science, before we can prepare against the growing dangers brought about by its constant unfoldings. Our airplanes . . . are supersonic, but our bodies are not yet supersonic. In such a world a dynamic, progressive, evolutionary, yet balanced, view of life is necessary for mankind...
...Ceres stares sullenly over the heads of the little men. The price board looks good from the farmer's point of view, bad from the housewife...
Back in Manhattan after a tour, Actor Conrad Nagel reported on the state of "the road" in the U.S. theater. "From the actor's point of view," said he, "the trouble with the road is that in most of the hotels we encountered . . . they hadn't changed the sheets on the beds since...