Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evaluates Grass's viewpoint depends on one's interpretation of German history. The way he upholds democracy and criticizes the German Far Left can't be judged by American standards. Some of those opposed to Grass would say that it is foolish to believe that democracy will work in Germany now when it has failed miserably every time in the past. But Grass's answer is that German democracy has failed in the past because the German people left politics up to the politicians, were willing to give the Chancellor too much power, were not really interested in their democracy...
Hubert Beuve-Méry, Le Monde's erudite editor, notes that, "It is events such as the accouchement of Brigitte Bardot that send our competitors' sales soaring. For us, it is a political crisis." From this viewpoint, the first appearance of the English-language weekly edition could hardly have been more auspicious: it came out the Wednesday before the referendum that brought down Charles de Gaulle. Le Monde cast a cool eye at De Gaulle's threatened resignation, denounced it as "a kind of blackmail," and wondered whether Frenchmen should "grant General de Gaulle...
...this myopic viewpoint the fact that the fire suppression creates jobs in backwoods areas, and you have a magnificent sacred cow. Many Alaskan prospectors and Indians, for instance, depend heavily on firefighting for their annual grubstakes. It is widely believed, but yet to be proven, that native villagers start their own fires if their village crew has been idle during the fire season. Last year, the Federal Government spent $9.2 million in Alaska alone to suppress fires, most of which were started by lightning, and many of which occurred in distant wilderness areas. If controlled forest fires really...
...students, however, want and expect the School to be the center of their three years in Cambridge. It has been an ominous development for the School--from the viewpoint of those who would like to see legal education weather the current storm with as little change as possible--that some of school's students have concluded recently that they, like undergraduates, must ignore the School to profit by their time there. One student who was active in the first-year students' movement for grade reform says the year's experience has "freed" many of his classmates. "Some of us accept...
From their employees' viewpoint, the bosses of expanding corporate enterprises often disappear into the paperwork to become remote and impersonal figures of authority rather than flesh-and-blood leaders. Over the past dozen years, John M. Eckerd, 56, has created a Florida drugstore chain with $100 million a year in sales by taking the opposite approach. Eckerd gives zealous attention to the personal touch. "Employees make or break a business," he says. "They should be treated as individuals and not just parts of a wheel...