Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter sent to all students in the GSAS on Wednesday, R. Victor Jones, the school's dean, noted that "we are being forced to evolve a new viewpoint on financial aid" by drastic cutbacks in fellowship programs funded by the federal government and by private foundations...
Tour Guide. Indeed, from a critic's viewpoint, the first day, despite a few flubs and miscues, was the season's best network TV show. With deadpan eye, the camera faithfully recorded Premier Chou choosing choice tidbits for Dick and Pat, like some top-level guide on a Gray Lines tour of Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right...
...animal remains and no valuables. Marinates explains that the people of the town, warned of the impending disaster by earth tremors and ominous outpourings of ash and gases must have fled in time and taken their treasures with them. The greatest treasures of all, however, from the archaeological viewpoint-the frescoes -could not be taken away by the doomed race...
...often argued that this process should begin with the creation of a coalition government. There are, however, many disadvantages to such an approach. Neither the NLF nor Saigon wants a coalition with the other, and it is difficult to envision how the existing leaderships could work together. From the viewpoint of the Government such an arrangement would, as one moderate Vietnamese leader put it, simply allow "the wolves into the chicken pen." More specifically it would surrender to the Viet Cong a major share in the exercise of authority in urban areas, which is precisely what they have been unable...
KUBRICK, however, removes the ambivalence of the Burgess viewpoint, and weights all material on Alex's side. The people whom the gang beat up are ugly or ridiculous--they spout cant about the lack of law and order or assume mere postures of fear. Alex still gets to screw two teen-age girls, but here he doesn't first get them drunk or shoot them up with horse. Kubrick makes his representatives of the state not only bland, but sexually randy. Most important for audience emotion-letting: out of all the victims seen, only Alex suffers. Kubrick has, in general...