Word: viewpoints
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...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...
...articles or essays on the same topic from a group of well known scholars, and bind them all together with a general introduction. The result is called a "symposium." and usually consists of 20 or so vague essays all saying the same thing about one general topic. The viewpoint expressed in the articles will be the accepted moderate-liberal position, with perhaps one ?? and one conservative thrown in for balance D?? the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is often guilty of this sort of thing, but this-time the quality of its product is higher...
...whole, all these efforts are well thought out and well worth reading. Each one represents the view of a different man, in a different discipline, and usually in a different institution from all the other contributors, with a unique viewpoint. If any criticism can be made, it is that the more radical of the contributors have chosen to indulge in theatric, rather than in a systematic critique of the university, and that certain of the administrators represented here have written in vague generalities more appropriate to a president's annual report or the position paper of a Senate candidate than...
...scheduling of a sightseeing tour of San Francisco and the unveiling of an elaborate wardrobe from half a dozen Paris couturiers by Pompidou's attractive wife Claude. Within the past few weeks, however, the whole public relations campaign has been considerably marred by what, from the U.S. viewpoint, is Pompidou's most serious mistake to date: his decision to sell 108 Mirage jets to Libya...
...goat named after the President.... They came [as members of the 1932 Bonus Army] to deliver a message to the President and Congress, to demand their veterans' pensions, and the President had them connections [between events] and we try to highlight those connections, make more of them." And this viewpoint affects even entertainment reviews. Rather than treating art or rock or films as something separate from "real" events, the paper tries to show what these have to do with our lives...