Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jonathan's mother starts a perfervid affair with an American seaman, Jim (Kris Kristofferson), which her son also observes intently through his knothole. Jonathan liked Jim when they first met, thought him strong, worldly and commanding, but soon has a new viewpoint. Mom's sailor may have been fine on the ocean, where he was part of "the pure and perfect order of things," but away from his rightful place, he becomes an imperfect creature, a subject of jealousy and contempt who must be done away with. Jonathan consults the Chief, who had previously persuaded his minions...
Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology and a member of the council, said last night the decision may not represent the council's viewpoint on granting credit for the performing arts...
Moulton, who represented the University viewpoint to the commission, said relations between Harvard and the commission have been good in the past. "I don't think our objectives will conflict in any way in the future," he added...
...nature, such a self-study is liable to lack objectivity. Dr. James Watson, the founder of behavioral psychology, pointed out that none of our knowledge can depend on data in which the observer and the observed are in the same person. The prohibition was lamentable, from the viewpoint of a fuller understanding of human behavior--after all, who but the individual himself is always present, with a front-seat view of everything he does? Freud recognized the risks involved in self-analysis, but rejected the loss to the behavioral sciences imposed by Watson's prohibition and so ignored it. Through...
...Paris where his father worked as an international lawyer; his American contacts were limited to his family, Boy Scout troops and summer vacations every two years in California. Scott wants to get a law degree and eventually enter American politics. Even though living in France gave him the viewpoint that "people are people are people," it made him more conscious of his nationality...