Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough, the professors demurred more than anyone else. The demeanor of the Yale pedagogue quoted is characteristic. From their viewpoint, such a use of divine learning borders on sacrilege...
...weapons of the body. When an infection sets in, the old organism stokes up the furnace, heats up the blood, sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever...
Considered from the viewpoint of the individual, another problem has arisen. As the numbers have increased, it has become proportionately more difficult for the underclassman to achieve that distinction which the Yale social system seems to demand. In order to make friends and become a worthy member of society, the feeling is that one must have "made" some team or competition. As a result, the ambitious tend to dissipate their energies in activities of little lasting value in order to acquire temporary recognition. Outside the circle of "big men" are those of quiet worth who have time for the pursuit...
...first part of the tour was dedicated to getting the strikers' viewpoint. A tabloid newspaper's representative was appointed official photographer. He snapped his shutter delightedly as the four dignitaries played Santa-Claus-taking-orders among the dishevelled strike barracks-shaking horny hands, patting grimy little heads, listening to angry women who had lost husbands or health or unborn babies, or who complained that they had been insulted, assaulted, injured by Governor Fisher's Coal & Iron Police or the operator's "scabs," many of whom are Negroes...
...year's stay in this country. The volume will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...