Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sovereignty to him. But like men in frocks or the doctor's steam-driven wheelchair, it is just a sight gag--a one-shot deal out of which you cannot build intricately sustained comedy. The movie is loaded with this junk, but it has no authentic momentum or satirical viewpoint--and is finally lost to its own desperate, unavailing search for a laugh...
Take, for example, the six daily local papers read by a population of just over a million people. Each paper caters to the viewpoint of one of the factions--the moderate Catholics, for example, or the extreme Protestants--and so one can immediately determine a person's political attitudes based primarily on the paper to which he or she subscribes...
...Walter Kirn's article "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31], a factual error created the false impression that NAMI, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill--which you mistakenly referred to as the National Association for Mental Illness--considers feelings of being "specially connected to God" as a possible symptom of manic depression...
...conspicuous sign of social progress that the Holden Caulfields of 1999 can be "cured" with the aid of Prozac & Co., as discussed by Walter Kirn in "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31]. It is a shame that Joan of Arc in her benighted state could not have similarly been "cured." Unproductive individuals hostile to mainstream society, ranging from Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make...
...piece about prescription medicines for teenagers who exhibit moodiness or anxiety [VIEWPOINT, May 31] incorrectly referred to the authorship of a recent Internet posting that listed some possible symptoms of manic depression in teens. The posting was written with the help of the American Academy of Adolescent Child Psychiatry, not the National Association for Mental Illness...