Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most active education lobby is the National Education Association, which speaks for hundreds of thousands of school teachers--teachers who view the national government as their last best hope for badly-needed salary boosts--and puts a considerable pressure on Congressmen...
...Harvard defense left much to be desired. The Crimson players bunched consistently in front of their own cage, getting in each other's way, blocking goalie Clark's view and leaving the B.C. skaters to whip around and score. Good hockey teams have one or two men playing the point to block shots; the Crimson always had four milling around. Then, when the team was on the attack, the defensemen frequently overcommitted themselves leaving the goal virtually unprotected...
With this view many working newsmen wholeheartedly disagreed; they felt that such a policy would be an open invitation to military men to slap the "top-secret" stamp on matters of legitimate public interest. Such newsmen felt that the press has the right to know what is going on; it should be responsible for keeping vital military secrets in peacetime just as it did in wartime...
...Barth, reminds him of a player in "a curious game called 'Brother, where art thou?' . . . who with eyes blindfolded [strikes] out wildly into the dark in a direction in which the other . . . is in all probability not to be found . . . Niebuhr's contribution is in my view a shattering example of a blow in the dark, such as I have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows . . . When I read his exposition...
...Bible, from which we each take our start . . . I was struck by finding in our Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according to choice . . . according as it appeared to them to strengthen their own view, and without feeling any need to ask whether the words quoted really have in their context the meaning attributed to them...