Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers deal pragmatically with each international crisis as it arises, refuse to accept the view that the U.S. is or can be in a dominant position. One major criterion for judging a policy: its anticipated effect on world opinion. This has sometimes led the Cowles brothers to argue that the U.S. may eventually lose more by taking a strong stand than by backing off a little under pressure...
Ultimate Goal. The Cowles view of world opinion rejects the argument that recognition of Communist China would go too far in making Communism respectable in Asia. Said the Des Moines Tribune in January 1951, shortly after the Red Chinese intervened in Korea: "Yes, we know that Communist China is an aggressor, a violator of the United Nations Charter . . . But it is the government of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese land and people. We might as well recognize this fact. And if we want to tell Mao Tse-tung he is a bad boy ... we shall have to recognize...
...extended in his series of self-portraits. They are by no means inept but they are far from au juste. They simply lack authority, and this is not quite enough. His illustrations for Gulliver's Travels are more happily resolved through chiaroscuro; but at this point one tends to view alternative techniques with a distrustful eye. It is significant that Rembrandt, the master of chiaroscuro in paint, worked in his drawings for complete structural clarity...
...Harvard is no place to learn a foreign language." With this terse statement, a teaching fellow in an elementary Italian class here expressed a view which has become prevalent among faculty and student alike at Harvard. But the statement of this teaching fellow might also be expanded to read, "A college is no place to learn a foreign language...
...gone to the University with a view of doing science," Mvusi says, "and I was studying zoology, biology, chemistry and physics at the time...