Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sons' radical impulses ultimately prevailed, of course, but their introductions to political activity were vastly differing ones. Daniel, a Jesuit, was almost entirely immersed in a clerical viewpoint; the strictness and internal discipline of his order insured that he would relate to political events within the perspective of the Church. And he seems a more deeply religious man than does Philip, whose instincts and activities have always been more secular-and more militant-in tone. A member of the more worldly Josephites, Philip was more capable of involving himself in social problems than was his more heavily committed Jesuit brother...
...each of the participating actors freely explains his own conceptions of his work at breaks in the narrative. The story itself is constructed in time so that one immediately recognizes that Bergman's argument develops out of whole lives. Most heartening of all is the film's positive philosophic viewpoint: through the new relationships Bergman built with his actors, he was able to urge in their drama that men should not take the seeming incomprehensibility of social events as an excuse for inaction and that the innate loneliness of each individual should not prevent or poison love...
...times, the new film criticism seems to wallow in groundless theorizing. One succinct and complete definition of a Godardian-Marxist viewpoint was voiced by Jim Crawford '71 in his review of Sontag's Duet for Cannibals...
...have been two of the most important film makers to come out of the direct cinema movement. The direct cinematographer is a special kind of film journalist who, rather than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to situate himself in the midst of them. Though he cannot transcend his subjective viewpoint, his object is ostensibly an objet trove, a "real life drama," and the structure of his film is to be determined by the nature of that object in action. Thus Albert says of Gimme Shelter that "we structure around what actually turned out to happen"; "what comes...
...been as forceful and persuasive an advocate as Kissinger, and, as a result, their immediate assistants-the men who feed position papers to Kissinger and his staff-have been less likely to take risks and back their department heads up. The result has been a near monotony of viewpoint; the crucial policy recommendations have come almost uniformly from Kissinger's office...