Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change of position and that there would be none. "We've run out of moves," said one high official. "The San Antonio formula is it, as far as we are concerned." Whatever the real import of Hanoi's intensified diplomatic campaign, one side benefit from the Communist viewpoint is the increased pressure it puts on Washington. United Nations Secretary General U Thant chimed in once again and put responsibility for getting talks started on the U.S. The Soviet Union condemned Johnson's "unwillingness to negotiate," although elsewhere Soviet-American diplomacy-which may yet prove...
...longer term, the U.S. is leading a drive to create a new monetary system that will, in time, loosen the world's umbilical ties to gold. From the American viewpoint, the current system unfairly penalizes the U.S. because it has run up deficits doing things that benefit the world, such as spending for foreign aid and tourism, lending and investing in capital-short areas. Thus, any new system has to provide a liberal and flexible credit window for tiding over countries with justifiable deficits. Most important, the system has to be one that eases the world shortage of monetary...
Social Relations 285, a seminar, will study social issues, forces which generate them, and reaction to them, from a behavioral sciences viewpoint. Vietnam will be the issue studied this spring...
...motivation" criterion might tend to favor students strongly opposed to the war, Inkeles acknowledged, but added "we hope for some diversity of viewpoint." A student "gets points not for his opinions, but for his skill as a social scientist," he added...
...Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed, and tuned more to the sensibilities of his audiences...