Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must view this display of young animal spirits with sympathy and understanding. Even the most industrious students need relaxation, and the Union management to date has supplied only ping-pong tables, inexpensive dances, discussion groups, bridge, chess, music, and stamp clubs, opportunity to create a Yardling publication, and a debating society. Students have stayed away in droves from these pedestrian activities in favor of the obviously superior sport and excitement of springing butter from a knife onto a convenient ceiling...
Banker Schacht was either sick or stalling. His attorney reported that the onetime Reich Finance Minister had undergone an operation for a "serious rupture," but denazification officials in Frankfurt still hoped to try him by mid-February. In view of Fritzsche's sentence, most observers guessed that Schacht would mend slowly...
...snarled up his half of the contract that it seemed impossible to untangle. The chief difficulty was that Pascal had guaranteed Deborah a certain sum after British taxes. To Hollywood the price seemed prohibitive. Poor Deborah languished as helplessly as the rich man with the needle's-eye view of heaven. Then, suddenly, she became more like a bone at the vortex of a dogfight. MGM, Sam Goldwyn, Loew-Lewin, Hal Wallis and J. Arthur Rank were all trying to get at her. It was M-G-M which finally bought out Pascal, and gave her a new contract...
...Enlightened social engineering" was his classic enunciation of the goal before us and the sociological view of the law his outstanding contribution to American jurisprudence. Not hidebound by the attorney's dogmas, he probed behind them to see how they squared with actualities. To equate legal formulas with changing modern values, a new lead in thinking was demanded; he advanced a belief that laws are above men but that they must serve men and reflect the ethics under which men live in a moment of history. Thirty years ago he realized our path must lie in an ideal of cooperation...
...endowed colleges, calling for outside aid in the training of future generations of professional men. Harvard's president demonstrates forthright honesty when he affirms that the ranks of the professions must be filled with a greater cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel of privilege that higher education continues to be, this view must be enlarged to include concrete plans for the education of the vast numbers of potential businessmen and career specialists whose contributions to society are not diluted by the absence of numerous degrees...