Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which rise above the sub-mediocre and "enigmatic" norm, Mr. A. can find no words to explain his sense of their quality or their meaning. He only mentions them briefly in a negative context. He also conveniently avoids a judgment on the sincerity or validity of the point of view expressed in Mr. Smith's letter.... Sara Dakin...
...prolific output has received an impresive circulation in the University--in one play produced last spring by the Harvard Dramatic Club, in two others set to music at Dunster House a couple of weeks ago, in another that was broadcast on WHRB, Kopit has revealed no startling point of view that seems original or significant. His achievement so far lies in his technical excellence, in an ability to construct characters and plots that are credible, and in a talent for speaking in a lyrical and pleasing voice. That is no mean feat...
...President Eisenhower one day last week Clare Booth Luce submitted her resignation. Taking global view from a vantage point high atop towers of Manhattan's fabled, fantastic Rockefeller Center was mellowing mate Henry R. Signposts pointed to a clear and tragic dilemma, resolved only by judicious sacrifice by Clare, chic and civic at fifty-five...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Five civilized conversational essays, another "absolutely last" book by the Old Party, in the engaging tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
Blaming Wages. From Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, came the sharpest opposition to the bill-he called it "untimely and unnecessary"-as well as backing for Blough's view. In the strongest terms yet used by an Administration economist, Saulnier laid the blame for inflation not on corporations but on "increases in money wages that outstrip improvements in productivity. I believe we have tended of late to depart from the historical relation between wage increases and productivity improvements. And if these cost increases cannot be passed on to the consumer in higher...