Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regards wars and famine (among humans) with a friendly eye. Of China he says: "There is little hope that the world will escape the horror of extensive famines in China within the next few years. But from the world point of view, these may be not only desirable but indispensable. A Chinese population that continued to increase at a geometric rate could be a global calamity. The [peace] mission of General Marshall in this unhappy land was called a failure. Had it succeeded, it might well have been a disaster...
...Elastic Soil. Real scientists take a dim view of Road to Survival. Here & there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many. From the verbiage of Vogt and his fellows, three central ideas about soil can be winnowed. All of these ideas are wrong, and the scientists knock them down easily...
...always. In Washington, D.C., Oppenheimer once interrupted a lecture by a slow-moving ex-pupil: "Well, really, this room is full of people who know the answer to this question. Let's get on." *This view does not sit well with many scientists -- among them Nobel Prizewinner Percy Bridgman, Oppenheimer's ol'd Harvard teacher. Says Bridgman: "If anybody should feel guilty, it's God. He put the facts there...
...coalition government. Now as then, however, the single alternative to that program is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further estrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines. In view of the present fiasco, the only realistic policy is to recognize Chiang's defeat and his inability to govern any longer...
When the Crimson taken to the Palmer Stadium turf tomorrow afternoon, football fans will view this forty-first renewal of an ancient rivalry an a friendly, ivy-covered rivalry indeed. But things were not always this; and, for a period of several years, it looked as though the two schools were never again to face each other athletically...