Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price of Unity. French Rightists took a different view: the Communists had expected to win last May's referendum and make heavy gains in the succeeding elections. Before taking over key ministries in the Government, they wanted to strip De Gaulle of his most dangerous lieutenant and thereby prevent the possibility of a Gaullist coup d'état to overthrow a Communist-dominated Government. Dewavrin's imprisonment was the Communist price for maintaining shaky tripartite unity in President Félix Gouin's Government...
James Bryant Conant's outstanding characteristic as an educator is that he is interested in education-which is a point of view not as typical of college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind...
They did not drench the entire five square miles with DDT. Instead, fly expert Dr. C. H. Curran began to prowl the park, mapping it from a fly's point of view. From intimate knowledge of fly psychology, he knew what places they would consider beauty spots, where they would go for refreshment, amusement and procreation...
...says he, speaking for the rest of the race, "am thoroughly tired of the various so-called histories of me. . . . They make a tedious and complicated matter out of what is really a simple one." Author Stewart's readers may find themselves repelled by his materialistic view of man and history, at times bored by his chummy "I, Man" approach. But they may also be amused (or outraged) by breaks from the most widely accepted concepts of history...
Mexican Catholic clergy tend to view the weak Protestant competition as a U.S. plot for domination of Mexico, financed by lavish quantities of gringo gold. Said one priest last week: Protestant missionaries, who have been dispensing medicine, clothing, etc., are like the British missionaries in Ireland during the famine of 1847 who bought Catholic souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they...