Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue. A subjective oddity is that in the Atlantic, it seemed weighty and formidable, one of those worthy projects the reader sets aside for a time when his mind and calendar are clear. But in hard cover, the text seems brief and often irritatingly superficial. Wakefield's viewpoint wavers. At times he is the visitor to a small planet-aloof, amused, rational, watching the antics of the savages. A few pages later, stumbling into earnestness, he takes the tone of a housewife who majored in political science writing a letter to the editor of the New York Times...
From Hanoi's viewpoint, of course, the U.S. was stalling too. U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman noted that the U.S. had fully expected Hanoi to use the talks, particularly in the early stages, to whip up worldwide pressure on the U.S. to halt its air raids against the North. "They wouldn't have come," said he, "unless they had expected more than propaganda out of this exercise." Accordingly, Harriman proposed that both sides get down to substantive and secret discussions. For the present, Hanoi has pooh-poohed the suggestion. Nevertheless, U.S. diplomats expect Hanoi to realize eventually that...
Some of the protesters merely object to the abuses of infant baptism, but oth ers go much farther, saying that baptism is only meaningful when the in dividual involved understands the significance of the ritual-a viewpoint that has lately been adopted by a number of other Protestant and even Catholic thinkers. In the Roman Catholic Church -which requires parents to have their children baptized as soon as possible-several progressive theologians have seriously suggested that the ceremony be postponed until puberty, when a youth presumably is mature enough to accept or reject his faith. Perhaps the most formidable challenge...
...into a very complicated issue. We've seen enough in this century to make us suspicious of people like me, but also to make us suspicious of people who say, "You cannot look at particular human beings and their needs when you're out to change society." This latter viewpoint can be used as a rationalization and justification for the most mean and cruel and inhuman political acts imaginable...
...significance of Indiana, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was not that it demonstrated overwhelming strength or that it promised victory at the Chicago convention; it did neither. Rather, it demonstrated his survival power in hostile territory. Uncommitted party leaders in such large states as Illinois and Michigan, regardless of their personal feelings toward Kennedy, must respect a candidate who fights hard and pulls well in urban areas. Those who might have been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week...