Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Discomfort. The opposition was represented by three points of view. First there were the hard-shelled isolationists like North Dakota's William Langer. They had a surprising ally in elderly, mustached Ralph Flanders of Vermont, a longtime internationalist. He thought the pact did not go far enough; he wanted to turn it into a rejuvenated U.N., equipped with its own international police force. Senator Flanders was convinced that the Politburo had set out to ruin us economically . . . by a "budgetary ambush," forcing the U.S. into a bankrupting arms race...
With their new riches, the Trapps "bought a view" in Vermont. A few weeks after they moved in, the old farmhouse came down in a windstorm. They have rebuilt it into a handsome, 20-room Tyrolean manor house. In winter, while the family is on concert tour, the house will be used as a hostelry for skiers...
...Seltzer, who keeps the Scripps-Howard Press a proper "family newspaper," was not perturbed at the statue's absence of fig leaf, and the Fine Arts Committee of the City Planning Commission liked the model. When the Press ran a "progress report" on the memorial, with a front-view photograph of the Fredericks model, only two readers felt strongly enough to write protests...
...Mass Murderer." In his daily life Schweitzer takes his own injunction to revere life so seriously that it sometimes astonishes those around him. He himsel" reports that the natives consider his view impractical and perverted when he tell them they must transplant young palm trees instead of cutting them down when a clearing is to be made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just...
Like a runaway Wagnerian opera, Fountainhead lumbers from crisis to crisis in a hysterical crescendo of muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...