Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom had so much error been compressed into so few words, spoken by a high U.S. official in the hopeful, innocent spring of 1945. His was a view of U.S.Russian relations then widely current; it died hard as international cooperation deteriorated through a year of deadlock and turgid compromise. But by the strained and troubled summer of 1946, when Molotov at the Paris Peace Conference again held the center of the stage, the world was learning to think of him not in terms of personal caprice or ambition. Now it knew him as the tough and devoted servant...
Decrying a $15 increase in the rental price of dormitory rooms and a $100 boost in tuition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology student veterans declared, in a special edition of their paper, "Veterans View," that "All of these increases place the student, veteran and non-veteran alike, in a terrible squeeze...
...simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee: "The great powers. . .attempt to impose upon us rules of voting which in practice prevent us from securing acceptance for our points of view. . . . Finally . . . they ask us to make them a few recommendations...
...craftsmen because they had to be, few of them thought much about art. They made quilts, candlesticks and rocking chairs beautiful out of respect for the crafts their parents had taught them plus an instinct for simple utility. This week 111 carefully detailed watercolors of their works went on view in Washington's National Gallery, labeled art with a capital...
...divisional psychiatrist, Dr. Maskin found that the time-consuming techniques of psychiatry had no place amid the rush of war. The psychiatrist had to improvise rules of thumb, apply them quickly and uncritically. He made enormous concessions to the basic military problem of cowardice and took a hardhearted view of most soldiers who complained of "nervousness." In fact he discovered that some neuroses are perhaps desirable. "Resentment can be a militarily useful frame of mind despite its personal painfulness. Frustrate and goad a man sufficiently and he will become indifferent to his own fate and ignore his . . . abhorrence of rage...