Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Volga Boatwomen, kiddies, it's only the Radcliffe crew, lending its charms to the historic Charles as it rounds itself into shape for a coming season of crab catching. Whether or not the 'Cliffe dwellers will challenge the Bollesmen is a matter of conjecture but in view of the fact that last year's feminine galley slaves left the Crimson in their wake means, possibly, that a challenge is in the offing...
Last week Sartre, the high prophet of existentialism (TIME, Jan. 28), gave New Yorkers who read Town & Country an esoteric's cloud-high view of their metropolis, packed tight with steel, stone and bricks. Wrote...
...Novelist Sartre also found decay in the city of skyscrapers. "They are already historical monuments, witnesses of a past epoch. . . . I cannot view them without sadness: they speak of a time when we thought the last war had been fought, when we believed in peace. Already they are slightly neglected; tomorrow, perhaps, they will be demolished. . . . To build them in the first place required a faith we no longer feel...
...their train lumbered out of Bremerhaven, the U.S. Army wives newly arrived in Germany got their first view of the ruins of bombed-out towns, the ill-dressed people. At one stop they looked across the platform at a dingy line of boxcars, jammed with German women and children returned from Silesia, shabby and impassive in defeat. Said one wife: "This makes me sick at my stomach. Not out of sympathy. It's civilization eating itself...
...with vastly more money than goods, casino profits had skyrocketed in the last two years to fantastic heights. The Government take in taxes had risen to the dangerous point where casinos were providing a fifth to a tenth of its $600,000,000 income. Rio papers all took the view that the President's action would place the country on a sounder financial footing...