Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reference your review of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile...
...Stately old Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington's fashionable Georgetown, was made ready down to the last pebble on its carefully graveled walks. The U.S. had named its Under Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius, as chairman of the U.S. delegation, thus, in diplomatic language, hoping to underscore its view-that other representatives should be at the important level of Under Secretaries. England and China followed suit, appointed the veteran Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with shruggin') and the veteran Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Victor...
...education for freedom' or a 'liberal' education is directly opposed to all that democratic countries cherish as freedom. The idea that an adequate education of any kind can be obtained by means of a miscellaneous assortment of a hundred books, more or less, is laughable when viewed practically. A five-foot bookshelf for adults, to be read, reread, and digested at leisure throughout a lifetime, is one thing. Crowded into four years and dealt out in fixed doses, it is quite another thing. In theory and basic aim, however, it is not funny. For it marks...
...sentimental view has more or less won in A.S.F. plans. The Army will give most consideration to the length of a man's service, will also consider his age and the number of his dependents. But the Army is going to keep enough well-seasoned troops to form a good-sized nucleus for every outfit...
...Pacific, as they had in Italy, U.S. dogs of war were proving themselves. On Bougainville, where the dogs got their first combat test, many a Marine took a dim view of them. Said one: "The damned things would get loose and they would go around biting hell out of everybody." But by the time the Marines got to Guam, dogs as well as handlers were veterans; the Marines were more used to them...