Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People section, you printed a paragraph about me, stating that I had publicly announced that my book, The Outsider, was a fraud. What I actually said was that The Outsider is a fraud as a work of philosophy. When someone has written a book which expresses an intensely personal viewpoint, he is bound to feel a fraud when people hail it as "representing the younger generation, etc." Nevertheless, The Outsider was written with deadly serious intent...
Except for the editorial, this issue contains no 'ideological' articles. The viewpoint that its editors have reached, or returned to, cannot perhaps be enunciated in proclamations, and few can be convinced by the mere saying of it. Maybe the viewpoint can better be discovered in the stories and poems and pictures of this issue...
There is much more to this thick issue; the most notable are eight fine reproductions of drawings by Jackson Pollock. Taken even in sum, this issue's contribution don't seem to lack a viewpoint. The best of them, which might be called fantasies, seem to show how it feels, how funny it sometimes feels, to be human...
From an architectural viewpoint, he explained that Memorial Hall, constructed in 1878 at a cost of $370,000, represented an architectural period which "cannot be highly regarded for its appeal in design...
Setting aside his drawing tools for a moment, Britain's best-known cartoonist, aging (65) David Low, writing for the New York Times Magazine, deplored, from a caricaturist's viewpoint, the post-Stalin decline of "the cult of personality." Lamented Low: "There has been a steady decline in striking personality as compared with pre-war yesterday, with its Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt and company . . . Eisenhower offers opportunities, certainly, with his curiously shaped skull and short, wide face, but nobody could say he was a cartoonist's delight . . . Things are even worse with the British...