Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke in on the Milwaukee Sentinel, moved to the St. Louis Star (now the Star-Times) as a copyreader. "One day they fired the sports department," recalls Red, and he got his chance. His first assignment was night football practice at Washington University. Red wrote the story from the viewpoint of a glowworm outshone by the floodlights. It was "cute," but it made a hit with readers, and Smith was a sportwriter for good. In 1936, he moved to the Philadelphia Record and a bylined column, and in 1945 to the Herald Tribune. Red's favorite sports : baseball, football...
Reversing the traditional, or Founding Fathers, viewpoint, his narrative deals largely with the trip itself, taking the immigrants only through the first few months of their settlement in the New World...
...this spring, "but I will say this-the Red Sox will make runs." As the 1950 major-league season began last week, McCarthy was proved quite right; after four innings of the opening game, the slugging Sox led the world champion New York Yankees, 9-0. From the Boston viewpoint, the trouble was that later in the game Joe DiMaggio & Co. drove in nine runs in a single inning, eventually...
...conference is to "discuss Republican Party policy from the viewpoint of the College generation." To accomplish this the delegates will split into seven panel discussion groups this afternoon after their opening plenary session in Littauer...
Conscience Makes Cowards. Like American Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused...