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...surprising reaction in Washington," wrote New York Timesman James Reston, "was that the two leaders made [the NATO meeting] sound worse than it really was." Even Columnist Doris Fleeson, whose ardent Stevensonian viewpoint would ordinarily give little reason for applauding anything done by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in Paris, noted that the Eisenhower-Dulles speeches "made the Paris results seem less effective than they actually were. For it is no mean feat to hold a defensive alliance together when an aggressor seems to be going strong. This was achieved in Paris against odds." Far from using the NATO conference...
Silverman blamed "inept" film leaders for their "ostrich viewpoint" about TV, roasted hard-up studio heads for peddling pre-1948 film libraries to television for a "ridiculously low price." The only solution, according to Silverman: post-1948 films must not be sold unless TV pays enough money "to maintain a steady flow of important pictures...
...dealing with such corrupted mentalities, argues Kennan, the West must accept the fact that it is futile to try to argue Soviet leaders around to the West's viewpoint. "There is nothing that can be said to Mr. Khrushchev on any occasion by any Western figures, however illustrious, that would suddenly dispel his obscurity of vision. What we are confronted with is not just misunderstanding, not just honest error, but a habit of the mind, an induced state, a condition...
...York City alone there were an estimated 500 exhibitions of paintings by Americans. This fall's season is opening with a widespread and impressive array of U.S. interest. The Cincinnati Art Museum is featuring an exhibition of 20th century U.S. realism which it calls "An American Viewpoint"; Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute has hung 121 works in its "American Classics of the 19th Century"; Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is about to inaugurate an enlarged American wing; the Brooklyn Museum is preparing "The Face of America," an exhibition of portraits from all periods. This week Manhattan's Wildenstein...
...United States, by adopting a less self-righteous attitude towards the forms of government of nations and a more realistic concept of Western interests, can serve its own cause far better than by making "right conduct" the only standard of foreign policy. In Syria, particularly, a revision of our viewpoint can prevent Russia from gaining a sphere of influence in the Arab world...