Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant prefaced his lecture by describing it as "an extremely personal viewpoint for which my only qualification is a knowledge of human nature." In the latter part of the talk, he discussed the importance of Germany's schools in determining the way educated Germans think about the past and envision the future of their land...
...surprising reaction in Washington," wrote New York Timesman James Reston, "was that the two leaders made [the NATO meeting] sound worse than it really was." Even Columnist Doris Fleeson, whose ardent Stevensonian viewpoint would ordinarily give little reason for applauding anything done by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in Paris, noted that the Eisenhower-Dulles speeches "made the Paris results seem less effective than they actually were. For it is no mean feat to hold a defensive alliance together when an aggressor seems to be going strong. This was achieved in Paris against odds." Far from using the NATO conference...
...prejudice in favor of the strangely arid, yet emotionally pompous sociologist's view of man. The trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only free of bias but bereft of viewpoint. The middle of the road is a good place to be hit by the traffic of history, but a poor place to gauge its destination...
Silverman blamed "inept" film leaders for their "ostrich viewpoint" about TV, roasted hard-up studio heads for peddling pre-1948 film libraries to television for a "ridiculously low price." The only solution, according to Silverman: post-1948 films must not be sold unless TV pays enough money "to maintain a steady flow of important pictures...
...dealing with such corrupted mentalities, argues Kennan, the West must accept the fact that it is futile to try to argue Soviet leaders around to the West's viewpoint. "There is nothing that can be said to Mr. Khrushchev on any occasion by any Western figures, however illustrious, that would suddenly dispel his obscurity of vision. What we are confronted with is not just misunderstanding, not just honest error, but a habit of the mind, an induced state, a condition...