Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each club, moreover, should send to the forum a delegation prepared to record the club's majority viewpoint on the topic. If a club must declare itself pro or con in the public meeting, there must be much prior discussion among its own members in order to decide on a stand. On the other hand, if groups sent individuals speaking only for themselves, the forum would soon degenerate into a series of personal testaments. This would hardly give students a chance to experience real parliamentary debates...
...TIME'S political viewpoint is pretty stupid, but your coverage of humanity and those who fight for its basic principles more than compensates for that...
...content to show that people are admirable when they adhere to conventional morality, but must also show that everything they do--listening to soap operas, watching abominable movies--is just as admirable. Fortunately such passages are few, but their overall effect is to liquidize and sentimentalize the viewpoint that Wouk takes...
Reaffirming his country's ties with the West, Adenauer agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Russia. Why not? From a U.S. viewpoint, only two points matter: 1) that Germany has not moved toward Communism or neutralism, 2) that any step toward the normalization of West Germany's relations with its neighbor nations is a step away from the danger that another German trauma will disturb the peace of Europe...
...into politics. You owe it to your community and to your country. in a world where politics is increasingly determinant. Traditionally, our businessmen have avoided and even scorned close participation in political life. They have adopted political attitudes from the viewpoint of their narrow business interests, such as on tariffs or taxes. They have moved in aggressively only where they have a dollar-and-cents stake in franchises, or utility rates, or public contracts. Most have dodged direct and personal political responsibility. They must dodge no longer. They are now desperately needed in big-time politics. The next time...