Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FILMS PORTRAYING vast lonely open spaces; films whose gradations of light and dark are textural, tactile; historical films telling what really happened from the viewpoint of the people to whom it really happened: pudgy people, people with freckles, people whose hands belie their age--until recently, these films have been almost the exclusive export of Australia...
Discussing political thinkers from Plato--"designated hitter of the philosphers' lineup"--to Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli, Burke and Madison, Will traced the roots of the prevailing belief that government should be neutral on social values and why he feels this viewpoint is "wrong...
...painting a positive portrait of Harvard for the world, she says, she never plays the huckster. "People believe perceptions, not always the facts," she explains, and perceptions of the school, she insists, are not always fair. Her public relations team is there not only "to express the administration's viewpoint, as they want it expressed" but also "to provide all of the facts...Harvard is not a monolith, so I'm trying to convey what the work or the action is and let the public's response take care of itself...
...half-inch above his bifocals. The effect is of a man always listening, or on the verge of some great surprise. It may be a habit nurtured by Viewpoint. His eyes would flit down to the typescript and stay too long. Then Helms would remember his 98,000 viewers and look up with a start. He does not smile easily, and his on-camera manner had the slightly sweaty earnestness that TV editorialists, North and South, exude by instinct. Unlike the rest of the breed, however, Helms was rarely bland...
...want to have a well-reasoned, well-written exposition of our viewpoint." Quist said. "It will be something more than seeing William Buckley once every three months on the t.v.," he added...