Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Death. In Japan it was the Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. In London the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered up a 50-mile protest march to Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston. The marchers' inspiration, dinned in mass meetings and magazine articles, was the view of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Writer Philip Toynbee, son of the famed historian, that nuclear disarmament will probably bring Communist domination, but that domination is preferable to the prospect of nuclear war. The London Daily Telegraph, speaking for millions of Britons, called the demonstrators "a motley...
...Commonwealth., He had sent a similar message, through friends of Tengku Abdul Rahman, to Malaya." What was Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would be the best guarantee that they would not fall under the influence...
...Baur, curator of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, believes he has found more in U.S. modern art than even the artists admit. He has documented his thesis with the works of 58 abstract sculptors and painters in a touring show, "Nature in Abstraction," now on view at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D. C. The thesis: U.S. abstract painters, consciously or unconsciously, are bringing nature back into the picture as a prime source of inspiration and imagery...
Opposed in approach to this view of the non-sectarian University but identical in conclusion is the attitude held by others in the group opposed to Pusey's policy. It is expressed by Frank W. Cross, Jr., associate professor of Old Testament in the Divinity School, who, however, did not sign the petition: "The issue is whether or not the Protestant tradition established in Sunday Services at Memorial Church requires that Jewish or Catholic services be excluded from its edifice...
...appropriate to say more about this part of the book only if it were more important to Handlin. But regrettably he has subordinated this material, on which his studies have strongly qualified him to write, to his "Whig theory" of writing history in terms of the present. The view that Smith symbolized the high-water mark of Catholic political hopes may be correct; so may be the view that he was double-crossed by a vacuous F.D.R. But if these conclusions were valid they would stand more firmly on a better research and more detailed history, and one which...