Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Council members in discussing the proposed survey with Heaman said that, although they fully respected him and his office, they thought that outside experts might introduce a fresh point of view with their suggestions, and would certainly clear the air of student objections, as expressed in the poll results...
Some of his critics and, in fact, some of his friends, wonder whether the well-trained lawyer has the capacity for more than an impersonal view of people and of history. Some of his friends, who do not question his ability to execute policy, wonder whether he has the imagination to become a creator and formulator of policy...
Nonchalance. "Being a person of reticent nature, it is entirely foreign to me to expose for public scrutiny a segment of my life," he wrote the Herald. "Having been through all the torments of the damned in the past few weeks, I can now view with some degree of objectivity my own sorry failure ... I accepted the post with no thought of misappropriation. The first audit was sketchy . . . Subsequent audits found me in varying degrees of embarrassment, but since I was never pinned down, I became . . . amazingly nonchalant about the whole matter, believing, alas, the money would be easily replaced...
...guided missile, watching the ground by radar, could send a televised radar map to the satellite. A repeater on the satellite could relay the ever-changing map to the missile's launching place. When the target came into view, control officers, watching the relayed map, could send last-minute instructions, by microwave, and steer the missile down on the target's heart...
Apples & Attraction. The Corcoran induced its visitors to write down what they liked and why. One well-established, if conservative, point of view came from a man who particularly liked William J. Glackens' Nude with Apple (1910): "Of all things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...