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Progress was pointed to on every hand from every viewpoint and in every respect. Typical was the new lighthouse with a fine revolving light of 25-miles visibility which has just been erected where Monrovia, the capital, juts into the ocean...
Another eminent American has looked at his world and has exalted the fascinating story of these United States in a popular "collective biography" of the American people. The American Viewpoint Society is sponsor for a series of three "American viewpoint" publications of which this is one, the others being "We and Our Government" and "We and Our Work." The activities of the Society are being conducted under the authorization and with the cooperation of the U. S. Department of Labor, primarily for the purposes of citizenship classes throughout the United States...
...with its "disappointments and hopes, its minute joys and sorrows. It is not Concerned With the difficult issues of Ilife, not with shifting sex moralities. The Green Bay Tree is cynical, incisive, a Stifle weary. It is the book of a young man steeped in France and the War viewpoint...
...older generation who are, to quote George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, "rocker bound"; who insist on their creaking mentality and absurd clinging to standards which they really never possessed. I'll admit that I do not care for the flapper grandmother; but the dignified preservation of a youthful viewpoint cannot be questioned. The wisdom of age combined with the enthusiasm of youth and a tolerance which is characteristic of no time of life but is, perhaps, a God-sent gift somewhat akin to second sight, is a state of bliss for anyone to contemplate...
Secretary Olivetti of the General Industry Federation commented: "The session shows a move toward tackling industrial problems from a purely Italian viewpoint. Hitherto Italy has been examined under the hypnotism of foreign Socialist ideas. Italy, lacking the raw materials and big capital of the United States, lacking Britain's organized industry and banking system, lacking France's colonial resources, must win the victory of industry by tenacity, work, intelligence and thrift, by which Italian manufacturers can conquer new markets...