Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of an opening, he has 60 seconds in which to deal with his subject. That's "between 180 and 200 words, depending on how many are polysyllabic," he says. But despite the nerve-racking restrictions, he pours a remarkable amount of information, polish and tart viewpoint into his reviews. Of the flibbertigibbet comedy import, There's a Girl in My Soup, he observed: "Here we have the sort of English play that prevents the American theater from having a permanent inferiority com plex." Or recently, from off-Broadway If two foul-mouthed mental defectives shouting at each...
...will list two reasons for the change in its letter to Faculty members. First, the HUC claims that "student perspective should be represented in the decision-making process in a formal and institutionalized manner." Second, the representatives would provide Faculty members with "a student viewpoint on all issues which concern the Harvard community...
...myself believe--and I think Mao Tse-tung believes, which is why he has unleashed this "Cultural Revolution"--that China is in grave danger, from his viewpoint (I do not regard is as a danger) of gradually evolving more in the direction of the Soviet state, toward a more pragmatic, revisionist form of Marxist Leninism...
Under present policy, the petition charged, the viewpoint of students "doesn't count for very much." The deans make decisions "unilaterally" and students are "powerless and voiceless in the formulation of policies that affect their lives," the petition warned...
Visiting constituents who admire this forth-rightness occasionally point to his voting record and suggest that he should have widened his viewpoint after a year in office. But the Senator tells them, "I can't be what I'm not. I'm not a doctrinaire liberal anymore than I'm a doctrinaire conservative." He considers himself "just a normal 47-year-old lawyer." The General Assembly was "really just a recreation for me--I practiced law very hard then," he says of his earlier political career...