Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphrey, in view of his experiences, worried about the free world future? Said Hubert Humphrey: "Hell...
...something else" of power politics which Governor Bowles offers is the view that man possesses a very human dignity that must be recognized, praised, and encouraged. "Have some faith in people who want to fix things for themselves," Bowles warns us. The underdeveloped nations are not necessarily nations incapable of acting responsibly. India, Pakistan, Burma--the list is much longer--are not children of the new world, but adults seeking to find their destinies unaided by mawkish pampering and baby-talk admonitions...
...dreams abroad is that ideals become dogma, and heralds of freedom turn into prophets spouting the froth of revelation. What Americans have lost sight of both at home and in their foreign relations is an ingredient of liberalism which Bowles repeatedly stresses: seeing the other person's point of view, tolerating minority opinion, allowing for differences of perspective. "This cold war," Bowles points out, "is hardly the one-sided affair some people would have us believe...
...plot on the part of the elite, either that of the U.S.A. or of the U.S.S.R." But "Military necessity . . . has become a cover term by which those who proclaim and who decide in the name of the nation hide their incompetence and their irresponsibility. The only realistic military view is the view that war, and not Russia is the enemy...
...home for Thanksgiving. It was warm and stuffy and it took at least a half hour for them to discover they were all from Wellesley. Each was a freshman, two had absolute peaches for housemothers, and they all took a critical and philosophical view of courses...