Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These people don't know the true war or else they have inhuman feelings for other people. I believe in a new system." When friends press him about it, he says doggedly: "I don't care about a name, but something have to came. My viewpoint is more than political...
...affection appears when Tracy plays wing-tip tag with a business underling over an airfield. They barrel-roll among the clouds for all the world like long lost brothers. This is during the people-are-everything stage. A little later, when Tracy momentarily shifts to the votes-are-everything viewpoint, he tells the same underling to stop playing and get back to building airplanes. All in all an amazing sequence...
...From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the ridiculous. It is hard to believe that the family would remain convinced that Mama's imaginary bank account was real; but acceptance of this anyth is so credibly presented that it isn't questioned. Well selected close-ups of the children's faces enhance the authority of Mama...
Crimson editorials represent the majority viewpoint in the Full Board...
...opposite viewpoint will be put forward by Flynn, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and now Democratic party leader in the Bronx. He is expected to defend the need and usefulness of political machines, and will probably parallel the argument in his recent book, "You're the Boss," which was drawn from a life spent in politics...