Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half of the committee comes from House drama associations. Since the proposal would presumably damage House productions, this segment of the group could hardly be expected to view it dispassionately. Significantly, the committee includes no representative from the Opera Guild...
...headed monster-scientist and public-relations man"). Others claim that the onetime boy wonder of rocketry has become too conservative, e.g., a West Coast rocketeer says that Von Braun is wary of unproved new ideas, no matter how promising, and that he "still takes the conventional view that we should go into space with chemical rockets, with overgrown missiles of conventional design." To this, Wernher von Braun pleads guilty. "The more you're in this business," he says, "the more conservative you get. I've been in it long enough to be very conservative, to want to improve...
...There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England, she is the spirit of togetherness, a one-woman P.T.A. opposed to discrimination against Indians, be they Siwanoy, NarraganSett, or any other friendly neighborhood group...
...confident that the world will become stabilized. Communism will move to the right, capitalism will move to the left and most of the world will be in the center-what we call democratic socialism." His friends in the West would feel more reassured if he had a more realistic view of the Communists as they are today...
...about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always conveys the rising sense of crisis in which Canterbury split from Rome. It was Wolsey's difficult role to represent both the universal church and an island king. As Ferguson puts it: "Rome could pay his wages, and England could enjoy his talents...