Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are other problems, of course, and one of them is viewpoint. Says Ways: "The two most important stories in the world right now are probably U.S.-Russian relations and the atomic bomb. The first is one of those highly controversial subjects on which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion-plus a positive...
Whatever was in Old John's mind, he played his game with his usual matchless skill. From the Government viewpoint, the contract which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally...
...England Opera Theatre was founded on the announced premise that opera must be seen as well as heard and should therefore be considered just as much from a theatrical as a musical viewpoint. In line with this policy, Goldovsky decided to do his first production, "The Marriage of Figaro," in English, so that not only the audience but the singers themselves would understand the motivation behind the action and music of the opera...
...point in doing things perfectly more than once. He left the imitating to his growing army of imitators. He began painting faces, tables and guitars from every angle, interlocking his various views of them in tight, infinitely complicated and almost unrecognizable compositions. Why paint from a single viewpoint, he argued, when you have legs to walk around the model and see it from behind as well as in front...
...From the viewpoint of University finances these proposed raises do involve a burden. But the Business Department can surely see the justice in paying the same wages for the same work. And it should not be too difficult to foresee the decline of many of the services of the College if the student help are not granted real and substantial assistance...