Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on the nuclear test debate was excellent, especially in view of the publicity given to the "Ban the Bomb Boys." For the layman, there appears to be only one choice: Should he put his faith in Edward Teller, the "father of the H-bomb," or in Linus Pauling or Edward Condon, two scientists who have so long leaned toward the left (politically) that they are no longer able to discern what is right (militarily or morally)? I prefer to trust my nuclear future to Dr. Teller...
...Eisenhower Administration's sharpest behind-the-scenes split on cold-war strategy broke unmistakably into public view last week. The issue: whether the U.S. ought to suspend its nuclear-weapons tests if there should be a U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement on inspection. The battleground: Democrat Hubert Humphrey's Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Disarmament. The principal contenders: on one side. H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss; on the other, Columbia University Physicist Jay Orear and the President's new disarmament adviser, Hans Bethe...
...with its roots dangling-was satirically spoofy enough to entertain adults, was tricked up with a passel of fantastic gimmicks to bewitch children. Items: a magic carpet so aerodynamically proper that it would not fly when overloaded, a boy genie (his father was in the bathtub) who spun into view from nowhere when Abu rubbed the magic lamp. As the gallant hero battling his way along the zigzag road to Samarkand, young (23) Kashmir-born Kuldip Singh was dashing and princely, sang with a mellow, Kuldipped voice that charmed tots as it has previously entranced bobby-soxers. Crooner Singh...
...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...These people," he continues, "are often very concerned about their own identity, who they are, and if Harvard has any meaning to this identity. Most of them view their problem in physically overwhelming terms, that of ordering their cosmos, of finding their place in the the universe. Sometimes there are other questions, such as "Am I a homosexual?' but these are only sub-forms; the main question is asked in cosmological terms. When they do come back to Harvard the reaction to these questions might be summarized, 'I still wonder about all that, but it doesn't matter as much...