Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the Beatles say. We all know that politics in-the-streets has its problems; that bruality and anarchy are risky and ugly. But we also know that far greater brutalities than any protesting students can bring about are committed everyday by governments, and that reality makes the Beatles' viewpoint trivial, insensitive, and unnecessary...
...before consulting them. L.B.J., aware that a refusal on Fortas would also block his nomination of Old Friend Homer Thornberry to Fortas' putatively vacant Associate Justice seat, could only whistle down the wind. "We shouldn't allow a little group to prevent the majority from expressing its viewpoint," he said. That, so far, is precisely what has happened...
...that nearsighted view of progress, says Williams College's Sheafe Satterthwaite, lies the crux of the problem: American industrial architecture can be preserved only if the people's viewpoint is changed...
...politics at a slightly lower level: by legitimizing the Front as a political party so that its members could vie for seats in the National Assembly like any other group. Cabinet seats would be denied them until they had demonstrably earned them at the polls. But, from the U.S. viewpoint, there are grave dangers in such a course. The Communists are far and away the best-organized, most cohesive political force in South Viet Nam, and in a free election could probably attract more votes than the population they currently control-perhaps getting as much as 35% of the vote...
...apiece. That would be about $15 above the market price when the offer was first made, although the Hughes magic started ABC share values spinning last week, and the stock closed the week at 68 1/4, up ten points. A major objection from the network's viewpoint is that a cash purchase would make sellers liable to capital gains taxes. Goldenson would much prefer a stock swap that could be taxfree...