Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Point of View...
After trying for three issues, the editors concluded that a point of view is possible as well as desirable. But possible only when and because one sees how hard it is in coming. The next editorial, entitled "The Place of Opposition" more directly criticized this university for its distractions, the activities which exist not for their own sake but to prove something else to somebody else, and which turn into poses. "Standards of measurement," they said," are strong distractions both in the B.A. and the Ph.D. systems." Then i.e. published its Harvard Issue, which has been much talked about...
...promised NBC's Meet the Press first crack at him whenever he becomes Britain's Prime Minister. Last week former Supreme Allied Commander Alfred Gruenther, long impregnable to a bombardment of invitations by the three programs, maneuvered a skillful surrender. At his request and in full view of Washington newsmen, a Pentagon pressagent solemnly dropped three slips of paper into a hat, each marked with the name of a different show. Then, eyes averted, he fished out the winner: Face the Nation, which triumphantly booked him for this Sunday's show...
...print The Waste Land as a little book ... it was discovered that the poem was inconveniently short, so I set to work to expand the notes, in order to provide a few more pages of printed matter . . . They became the remarkable exposition of bogus scholarship that is still on view today. I have sometimes thought of getting rid of these notes; but ... they have had almost greater popularity than the poem itself ... I regret having sent so many enquirers off on a wild goose chase after Tarot cards and the Holy Grail...
Heschel spoke on "The Intellectual View of Our Religious Convictions," and asserted that "we must respond to the mystery of living with a sense of awe before we can intellectually understand the existence of God." He described faith as the response to the "mystery of existence...