Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prague, who told him that "the war is already on, we are only waiting for a formal declaration," Cater asserted that among official and unofficial Americans in Europe the kind of talk that Henry Wallace hit at--the war is here attitude--was already common. This point of view, Cater said, was definitely not prevalent in the student representative, and that real hope existed for the maintenance of peace if there could be free exchange of thought between students of the world...
Singly and in straggling little groups the faithful came to view the remains. Hinky Dink was dead, at 89. At Hursen's funeral Home on Chicago s South Michigan Avenue, under the glass cover of a $5,000 bronze casket, the Honorable Michael Kenna, symbol of the gaudiest era of Chicago's noisy and sinful past, was now a museum piece...
Last week some seldom-seen Rodin drawings were on view in a Manhattan gallery; others were included in a Rodin show at Washington's National Gallery. Visitors were inclined to agree with Rilke that Rodin had achieved greatness through the "free play" of his "quick and trained hand." The drawings looked free as the wind-and actually were just as bound as the wind is by nature. Rodin drew just what he saw. "After all," remarked the old man once, "the artist has only to trust his eyes...
...Bright Day is a disenchanted view of 1946-style life, and a lament for the good old days when life struck a harmonious balance between work and play. Hero Gregory Dawson is a successful movie-script writer of about Priestley's own age (55); he divides his time between feverishly churning out a perfumed movie story and feverishly recalling the days when rich Yorkshire wool merchants went home to play Schubert of an evening. By the time he has written finis to his tawdry script, Dawson has also decided to write finis to his tawdry career. Henceforth, with trade...
...considers ex-Harvardman William Randolph Hearst "the biggest hypocrite alive" for his chain's campaign against so-called smutty literature, in view of the sexsational stories and headlines featured by his papers. Isenstadt believes that the next target of Mr. Hearst and the censors will be Charles Jackson's study of homosexuality, "The Fall of Valor." The novel is prominently displayed in the ULBE and will so continue, says Mr. I, despite Hearst's "nasty campaign...