Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House spokesman called the letter "unfortunate" and "not the President's viewpoint," while Ronald Reagan himself made excuses for his impolitic Secretary at a midweek press conference. The obligatory resolution denouncing Watt was introduced by twelve Democratic Senators, including New York's Daniel Moynihan, who described the letter as "bareknuckled bigotry...
...gave public vent to his changed views with the publication of Storm-Kompas, a booklet in which 24 prominent Afrikaner clergy and writers attacked apartheid on religious and moral grounds. Smith was the volume's principal editor. Within the ironclad code of Afrikaner society, the book's viewpoint was shocking. The publication was only a warmup. Last month Smith was prominent among the 123 N.G. Church clergy who issued a fierce, indeed historic, protest against the regime's policies of racial separation and discrimination, terming them immoral, indefensible and unbiblical...
...writing this letter on the "official letterhead" of the "Department of Government" (I can't afford anything else) but the Faculty Council must know these are my own views, not the collective viewpoint of the Department of Government, something not easily arrived at in any case. In short, the "official letterhead" doctrine is untenable. It is unfortunate the Faculty Council did not say as much. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...been dissuaded from an attempt at an Ivy League accent, which turns him into a male chauvinist prig. But let the blame fall where it truly belongs: on a scenario by William Hanley that is without persuasive incident or dialogue, direction by Fielder Cook that is without texture or viewpoint. The aim here was obviously to do something elegant and up-market for television. The result is a bloodless bore on a screen of any size. -By Richard Schickel
Laurence's opening report condemned what may be TV's biggest weakness, one discussed on every episode of Viewpoint to date: obsession with the "visually sensational." Seconded Jennings: "The producers in New York say, 'You have got to have bang-bang [pictures of violence].' That is a sad rule." Yet Viewpoint introduced its Middle East segment with shot after shot of bang-bang, some of it several years old. And Laurence, who works in London, reported the unremarkable results of a poll of American viewers' attitudes toward foreign reporting while he stood in front...