Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...county director of finance, a Democratic appointee. The state does keep a relatively small amount of funds in Chesapeake National-and in perhaps 100 other banks-but the account was put there before he became Governor. Worst part of the Times's performance, from Agnew's viewpoint, was its questioning of how he had acquired some shares in the bank. According to the paper, Agnew claimed he had inherited the shares from his father, though his father had died a year before the bank opened. Agnew responded that he had claimed no such thing; he had inherited...
...FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed, harbored at least one genuine reactionary. Described by Luce as a man with the viewpoint of an "18th century gentleman," Laird Goldsborough served for 13 years as Foreign News editor. Devoted to property and royalty, he took Mussolini's side in the Ethiopian war During the Spanish Civil War, he characterized the Loyalists in TIME as a regime of "Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals that...
Bananas or Banannas. From the viewpoint of the ordinary reader, Wilson certainly has a point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...
...Nobel Prize, Reischauer said, has been confined by a "parochial viewpoint" to the Western languages. Reischauer met Kawabata on several occasions while ambassador to Japan...
...taxes, he does not pause to worry about the loopholes by which the rich escape paying anything like a fair share because he is preoccupied instead with the thought that his money is being given out in some fraction to welfare recipients. He is more suspectible to the latter viewpoint because all his life he has been taught to believe that a man should work for himself to amass as much wealth as he can in ceaseless competition with everybody else...