Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...
Mann would not be Mann (or German) if, having written this, he did not take a step back to view himself as critic. "The tendency toward selfcriticism, often to the point of self-disgust and self-execration, is thoroughly German. . . ." As an example of German selfcriticism, Mann recalls: "In conversation, at least, Goethe went so far as to wish for a German Diaspora. 'Like the Jews,' he said, 'the Germans must be transplanted and scattered over the world. ... In order to develop the good that lies in them...
...This view also had its protagonists in the U.S., which, with Britain, will next week begin an investigation into the Palestine problem. To the U.S. went a word of warning this week from Denis W. Brogan, who likes interpreting Britons and Americans to each other. Investigation, said Brogan, is not government, and basically the Palestine problem is a problem of government, a responsibility the U.S. does not share...
...Berlin's Russian zone, 100 prints and drawings of the poor, the sick, the starved and the dead went on view. Done by the late German Socialist Käthe Kollwitz (TIME, Dec. 3) and damned by the Nazis, they were mostly about Germany after World War I. But many had an obvious application to the present...
...upset the balance of nature? Yes, but that's nothing to be alarmed about, says one of Britain's foremost authorities on insect physiology. The authority, who has the nervous name of Dr. Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, writing in the December Atlantic Monthly, took the long, calm view: chemicals have upset nature's balance before and DDT is merely the latest and most violent. The laws of nature have never been abrogated and there is no reason to believe that DDT can do it. Points and examples...