Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter Selove, professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania and formerly assistant professor of Physics here, took a rather different viewpoint of the situation. He pointed out that it is virtually impossible to determine what may be reasonably called a "permissible level" of radioactive strontium 90 in the body...
...Person in a way to start with, partly cat and partly humans, because Miss Sarton's imagination allows her to take his viewpoint from the start. She knows that though cats can come to have human characteristics by living with people, still cats have their dignity, which human people must regard, especially those who dare write books about cats. Her point seems to be that it's easier for her to be a cat lover than for a cat to be a lover of people...
...forgets that Harvard is an institution for higher education, not an academic subordinate of the ADA. If Mr. Moley's standards were to be followed, material success and public acclaim would be the only criteria to be utilized in choosing lecturers, and students would be safely inculcated with whatever viewpoint the contemporary majority holds...
...newsworthy but not very happy. The U.S.S.R. annual economic report, while claiming an 11% increase in industrial output, listed some serious deficiencies: capital investment was down 6%, and coal, iron, cement, glass, some machine tools and much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands"-a pat on the back for those who had responded to Khrushchev...
...Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland's latent anti-Semitism and describe the Gomulka faction as a "bunch of Jews." From their viewpoint, an anti-Communist demonstration at the polls would constitute a massive nonconfidence vote in Gomulka, and justify a Stalinist revival in which they would return to power, if necessary with the support of Soviet tanks...