Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaperman and current member of the Harvard Zionist Group's Executive Board, I wish to take exception to all except the first sentence of Robert L. Wald's letter in Friday's Crimson. The phrase "typical Arab viewpoint" is informative, not editorial in nature and is used to better describe to readers who may not be thoroughly familiar with the sides in the controversy just what group is being represented by the speaker. This is a perfectly legitimate journalistic device. "At least in Hashem's opinion" is included for the obvious purpose of preventing a statement, printed as an indirect...
...common men as much alike as possible in pay and social position the world over, the Times chose not-so-common railroad engineers ("theoretically, they see life from the same level-the locomotive-cab window," were above average in pay, but average in viewpoint). The answers filled 16 columns, added up "generally on the melancholy side, with only a faint edging of hope." Excerpts...
...TIME'S domestic news bureaus. Like many another TIMEman who learned his trade in the field, they have brought to their new jobs at home and abroad a first-hand knowledge of the kind of local coverage it takes to make the kind of national and world viewpoint that TIME strives...
...approach to the issue, and then only partially. A part of the answer may lie in the left-wing leanings that seem to pervade the thinking of many political economists. The fact remains that there are no thoroughly left-wing socialists on the faculty when an understanding of this viewpoint is essential and when universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Williams, in our own country, do not deem the viewpoint dangerous...
...Risks. More reparations in consumer goods to Russia would have several important results, some good, some bad from a U.S. viewpoint. The Russian people, who had fought a heroic war, would get a slight and well-deserved increase in their living standard. Germany's neighbors, who could not return to normal economy until Germany revived considerably, would certainly benefit. On the other hand, more consumer goods to Russians would permit the Kremlin's bosses to allocate a greater part of the Russian industrial effort to increasing the U.S.S.R. war potential. And a large flow of German production...