Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Benchley '12, when he was an undergraduate, found the following question on an hour exam in a Gov course: "Discuss the Northern Fisheries case from the point of view of the important question of international law." Benchley was not prepared, having been out on a Lampoon binge the night before, and started off his answer as follows: "I should like to discuss this case from a new angle--namely, from the point of view of the fish...
Other scientists, perhaps a little closer to earth than Dr. Einstein, had pretty well demonstrated that the only "secret"' was the manufacturing process, and that it could not be kept very long. Having worked so hard to destroy the fallacy, they took a poor view of the master's repeated reference to "the secret." On his suggestion that a committee of three settle everything, practical internationalists maintained a polite silence...
...swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...
...Chinese with angina or thrombosis is almost unknown." So said Boston's Dr. Samuel Albert Levine, who knows as much as anyone about the heart and its ills. "Is it their diet, as I suppose? Then we should adopt it. Is it their racial heritage or their philosophical view of life, compared to our excitability?" Dr. Levine merely raised the questions, and did not stay for an answer...
...present, it is necessary to emphasize the main point which got lost in Tuesday's shuffle. From any point of view but the one which claims late Romantic and Slavic music as superior to all others, there is no defense for the programs which have been aired in Symphony Hall for the last four weeks...