Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be worrying itself fretful over the high prices; it might be peevish over strikes or jittery about Communists. But the millions of Europe's war-ravaged continent had a more realistic view: America was still the great land of promise. In Greece, the U.S. embassy had enough applications to fill the immigration quota (307 a year) for 99 years...
...then, argued pretty Senora Peron, could such hard-boiled advisers as Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia caution her not to go to fascist Spain-simply because the U.S. (which husband Juan Peron is currently wooing) might view the trip dimly? Did not Bramuglia and those other Dutch uncles know about the plans? How she would fly in a special four-motored transport, escorted by two Argentine army planes, to the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha? How Spanish flyers would meet her there and take her to Madrid with full military honors...
...succeeding speeches, Olga Samaroff, musical educator, critic, and pianist, looked at criticism from the point of view of the performer, while Virgil Thomson, the New York Herald-Tribune's critic, did "The Art of Judging Music...
Miss Samaroff suggested means by which musical life in America could be decentralized and the performer enabled to depend less on the view of New York critics, while Thomson analyzed the processes by which a critic works...
...view of this fact, Forster believes that the "raison d'etre" of criticism can only be established on "miner grounds," such as its purely educational or analitical functions...