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Like all our correspondents, Mary Welsh's job with TIME goes beyond the kind of news the Associated Press sends us. Her job is to make sure TIME'S editors and readers get the insider's viewpoint, and for that purpose her friendships with so many of the great and near-great are invaluable...
...adult and demanding. Artistically, it is a textbook of advanced cinema technique. The novel use of sidelighting and exaggerated perspective that made Kane seem unlike any other movie floods Ambersons with the same revealing eloquence, examining faces, bathrooms, streets, the cluttered detail of the Ambersons' magnificence, from a viewpoint so fresh that it creates a visual suspense in the very act of clarification. Once the camera takes a 350-degree turn round the ballroom at George's home-for-the-holidays party, darting in to pick up revealing scraps of conversation, moving, probing, giving the narrative subtle, succinct...
...Reischauer and his senior colleague, Professor Elissceff, are helping to meet the acute military need for men with a speaking knowledge of the enemy tongue. But even more important than the needs of the immediate present, according to Dr. Reischauer, is the long-range necessity of appreciating the Oriental viewpoint without which the peace can never be won. Says he: "There is no better way of learning to appreciate a people than through a study of their language." Hence his great hope that some day the men he is teaching will help destroy the old idea of "East is East...
...Viewpoint Changes Slowly...
...viewpoint on matters such as these changes slowly. There are those who frankly, though silently, look upon colleges and universities as preeminently special preserves...