Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational methods. Because we do not believe that negative educational methods are effective, we would not write "laff" on a blackboard and tell children to avoid spelling "laugh" that way. Likewise, we would not show a film which is rife with anti-Negro propaganda and which presents a warped viewpoint of the period in American history in which the Negro's role was a highly controversial subject...
Republican John Strohmeyer tersely gave his viewpoint: "For the past four years I have been crime and corruption reporter for the Providence Journal. I'm going to vote period. You can draw your own conclusions." Strohmeyer's stories on corruption have won him either a first or second place in the annual New England AP contest--three of the past four years...
...consider that the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is one of the few Communist Parties to which history has confided decisive tasks from the viewpoint of the world revolutionary movement. The revolutionary crisis ... in the United States ... is near . . . The American Communist Party must be ready to meet the crisis fully armed to take over the direction of the future class...
...think the great creative age of orchestra music begins with Mozart and ends with Wagner and that this should be reflected in orchestral programs. Of course all musical taste is subjective; but I should not want Professor Bruner's viewpoint on this subject to be the only one expressed in your columns. William Henry Chamberlin
Even while running a busy law firm. Strong kept an attentive eye on the arts. His diary provides an informal cultural history of 19th century New York, written from the viewpoint of an enlightened conservative. It is crammed with shrewd comments on the music of Beethoven ("the Byron of Musicians") and Mozart ("the king of Melody"), brightened by impromptu reviews of Jenny Lind's singing ("marvelously executed") and Edwin Booth's acting ("carefully studied"). Strong found time to read the classics of his day as they appeared, and appraised them with instinctive good sense...