Word: viewpoints
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...mold Agnes in School for Wives, its theme is simpler and more universal: love conquers narrowness and selfish obsessions. Moliere's genius is in depicting a character who is the apotheosis of some short-sighted way of looking at the world, and in gleefully and decisively destroying that viewpoint. Arnolphe, though made human and rather sympathetic by Bedford (who is simply too likeable an actor to portray total evil), loses, and deserves to lose; his snivelling retreat while the happy lovers embrace is the high point of the play...
From a purely military viewpoint, the Tet offensive was a major defeat for the North Vietnamese. More than 67,000 troops were committed to battle in at least 100 cities and villages, in hopes of creating a general uprising that never happened; the Communist assaults on Saigon and Hue were bloodily repulsed. But the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers were able to strike at will all over the country and penetrated Allied lines with ease. This was dramatic evidence that Westmoreland's "success offensive" and his claim of imminent victory had been greatly oversold. The impact...
Teachers and administrators are often hesitant about all-year plans because they require rearranging the curriculum into smaller units. A drawback from the viewpoint of parents is the difficulty in taking long family vacations. But in most states approval by the legislature is needed to allow school boards to tinker with the schedule. Many legislators are reluctant. One bill was defeated in New York last spring when legislators from summer-resort areas objected that revisions would hurt their constituents' business...
...head to head, as the writers of the major contending opinions. Black-more frequently in the majority-would crisply muster the facts and reasoning that led to the court's ruling, in seemingly impregnable logic. Then came Harlan, calmly and subtly pinpointing flaws in the majority viewpoint, exhaustively detailing his own different but fully persuasive logic. The reader was sometimes left dazzled and confused-but also enlightened about the nature of law as a living language of civilized society...
...swallows it, the line is laughed at and the laugh is clutched. If pathos is evoked, the film's essential rationality beckons us to retreat, without regret, to a world of traffic lights, vandalsim and economic crises--the world of our daily survival. If the film's philosophic viewpoint does not satisfy us completely, it is a measure of the film's quality that we take it seriously enough to judge it by our own lives--as we do with the best art. For the film's characters live an existence as complex and seemingly arbitrary...