Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasoned theater hands are prone, that of substituting showmanly expertise for solid substance. Despite a disclaimer, the character of President Stephen Decatur Henderson (Robert Ryan) is fairly obviously modeled on Ike, and his First Lady (Nanette Fabray) could double for Jackie Kennedy. This opportunistically split ticket suggests the synthetic viewpoint of a show that never intended to say something, but merely to trade on exalted somebodies...
...session. This was still the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress of which President Kennedy recently boasted: "No Congress in recent years has made a record of progress and compassion to match this." But Kennedy must have been smiling through his tears as it slowly drew to a close. From an Administration viewpoint, the 87th in 1962 could only be considered an obstinate, balky, frequently frustrating beast. It gave Kennedy one great victory and a few smaller ones; it was marked by a great batch of half-loaf compromises; and it turned the Administration down cold on many of its key requests...
...absence of forthright denials, the story-and the rumors-grew. Last March, The Realist, a shabby Greenwich Village periodical, published the fact of the Blauvelt genealogical entry as an "expose." So, a bit later, did Birmingham's antiSemitic, anti-Negro circular, The Thunderbolt ("The White Man's Viewpoint"). So, in June, did The Winrod Letter, a oamphlet put out by the Rev. Gordon Winrod of Little Rock. Racist organizations in the South and crackpot groups everywhere photostated these pieces and sent them out as junk mail by the scores of thousands; it is estimated that at least...
...other hand, and more important, I protest against the viewpoint that establishes the worth of a minister by the amount of his salary and by the size of his church. I protest against the whole attitude that a pastor can "work his way up" in the ministry, meaning that his ultimate goal is to become a kind of top executive. I protect against the usual definition of a minister's "competence," meaning how well he can lead, organize, and raise money...
...vast retreat from the crisp analysis of his earlier writing, is less literary criticism than a diatribe against Christianity. Empson fears that literary criticism has fallen into the hands of T. S. Eliot and the "neo-Christian movement." which judges all literature from a Christian viewpoint. Empson finds Satan a more likable character than God in Paradise Lost. Milton's God is "astonishingly like Uncle Joe Stalin" down to "flashes of joviality" and "bad temper," writes Empson. He tortures angels and mankind for his own amusement. Satan, on the other hand, behaves like a democrat toward fellow fallen angels...