Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John C. Bennett, D.D., president of Union Theological Seminary. The Biblical viewpoint places you in the mainstream of 20th century activity and, as oft it has, commands even the reluctant to shoulder the robe and risk of the prophet...
...girl dies in giving birth to her uncertainly sired child. Author Scott writes with gravity and grace. He has set his scarifying tale within a bloody jungle of Congress Party politicking and imperial British bungling, which he examines informatively and with compassion. He also examines events from every possible viewpoint, successively recounting his story through the eyes of eight widely disparate observers. Even for elusive India, it proves to be about four observers too many...
...theory, an SDS education supplies the common viewpoint which makes such a consensus possible, but the theory clearly breaks down in practice. At a two day regional meeting of SDS last December, the large assembly failed to take a position on a proposal to carry the war protest to groups off campus. The program did take place during the spring semester, but not in the organized fashion the leaders had envisioned...
...guards his personal image against any controversy which might alienate voters. In Brooke, the people of Massachusetts can elect a Negro without sacrificing their own white viewpoint. He is not vehement enough on civil rights to raise any white reaction, as his failure to take a stand on a new state law withholding state aid from cities with racially imbalanced schools indicates. He is a Negro, yes, but local Negro leaders generally regard him as an Uncle Tom, and he plays the role well. He serves as president of the Opera Company of Boston and as chancellor of Old North...
...literate and witty professor. Galbraith, however, certainly did not consider it so. Later he added that-although he does not advocate direct U.S. withdrawal-Viet Nam is "a country which has not the slightest strategic importance." His neo-isolationism is less significant as a personal viewpoint than as a measure of a growing tendency among academics and other critics of U.S. policy to believe that Viet Nam is simply not very important to the U,S. It also reflects the feelings of a great many other Americans, who devoutly wish that Viet Nam were really unimportant, a place that need...