Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming of the Pope to New York City [Oct. 15] was a "lifter-upper" for all of us. Men of every religious viewpoint were moved by his devout piety, his warmhearted charity and his gracious humility. The faithful have been reassured that God is not dead-that he has not left himself without witness...
...President's viewpoint was well defined, of course, long before he encountered Barbara Ward's blueprint for what she calls "the good society." Yet, marvels Johnson, her book "excites and inspires me" with every reading. His admiration does not go unrequited. Says Barbara Ward: "His profound and compassionate understanding of the roots of poverty gives a unique dimension to the leadership he offers the world...
Newspaper editors generally pride themselves on letting a columnist say what he pleases, but last week Walter Lippmann said more than the editors of the New York Herald Tribune had bargained for. Writing once again from his own "neoisolationist" viewpoint, Lippmann declared: "My own view is that the conception of ourselves as the policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of selfdelusion. It is dangerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Republics can the U.S. police in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the U.S defend in Asia...
...your discussion of the Times's editorial policy on the Viet Nam war [July 23], you implied that there was significance to the fact that some Times columnists and some writers for the Sunday Magazine have taken a different viewpoint from that expressed in our editorials. The opinions expressed by columnists and writers for the Times and the magazine are strictly their own and have no relationship whatsoever to the editorial opinions of the New York Times as such...
While not increasing the faculty's administrative powers, it will enable groups of teachers in each area to express a unified viewpoint and allow a freer flow of information between areas. Three of the faculty groupings will be "disciplinary"--humanities, social sociences (sociology), and psychology. Each member of the faculty will belong to two groups...