Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to David Holmstrom, the GSAS representative, there are two ways of objecting to the CRR. From the liberal viewpoint, it is "completely illegitimate because it has no popular base." From the radical viewpoint, "even if it had a popular base it would be bad because the actions it takes...
...outset. The report of Justice James Boyle, the crusty Vineyarder who presided over the inquest, concluded that "negligence" on Kennedy's part "appears" to have contributed to the accident. Kennedy admitted traveling at 20 m.p.h. over treacherous Dike Bridge; Boyle termed that speed excessive. Worse, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was Boyle's official finding challenging Kennedy's story that he and Mary Jo left a party to go to the ferry that would take them from Chappaquiddick to their separate lodgings in Edgartown. A paved road bearing left led to the ferry. A dirt road going right led to Dike...
Perhaps Fuller's delusion comes from his viewpoint. In his notebooks, Albert Camus once described the airplane "as one of the elements of modern negation and abstraction. There is no more nature . . . everything disappears. There remains a diagram-a map. Man, in short, looks through the eyes of God. And he perceives that God can have but an abstract view. This is not a good thing...
Lonergan does not pretend to comprehend everything, but only to offer a dynamic viewpoint in which everything may be seen to be part of an interrelated whole. It is at heart a simple method but, like Jesus' great commandment of love, it is not easy. Critics who say that it offers too many answers do not grasp the essential Lonergan. What he may offer, for many people, is too many challenges. Despite the promise of an ultimate horizon, there is in that offer no solid assurance of an answer that can be grasped in mortal life. There is only...
...funny, though, how rapidly a person's viewpoint changes when he's in danger and needs the help of the police. But most kids are against the police these days. All they think is, 'For Chrissakes, will they ever leave us alone...