Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither country expects the stalemate to continue indefinitely. Mr. Stalin and the American Secretary of State have said that a compromise will be reached; but from the Russian point of view, the later, the better. If the Russian expectation of an economic crisis in the United States is fulfilled, this nation will be hard pressed to maintain its occupation troops in Europe, and Russia's bargaining power will be enormously increased...
...Ministry of Education, spoke for the Government: "I believe it to be a method of keeping discipline which is completely out of date. . . . It is bad for the child and it is very bad for the adult who administers it. [But] there is also the Ministry point of view.. In saying that I do not imply that officials are sadists, eager to continue the use of caning and flogging. I merely say that, as a Ministry, it is important to move with public opinion. We do not advocate the use of corporal punishment, but public opinion...
Critics of the U.S. press view with alarm the shrinkage in the number of dailies: only 117 U.S. cities still have competing daily newspapers, v. 689 37 years ago. This week the critics could point with pride to Phoenix, Ariz., a monopoly town where competition had now been restored...
First, on the theoretical level, divergent points of view were expressed by Forster and Edgar Wind, professor of Philosophy at Smith College, in speeches concerned with the relation of criticism...
Where Forster took a frankly pessimistic view, claiming that a wide vold separated the critical and creative processes, Wind set forth the theory that the two were inseparable, and consequently of vital importance to each other...