Word: viewpoints
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...Nobel Prize, Reischauer said, has been confined by a "parochial viewpoint" to the Western languages. Reischauer met Kawabata on several occasions while ambassador to Japan...
...taxes, he does not pause to worry about the loopholes by which the rich escape paying anything like a fair share because he is preoccupied instead with the thought that his money is being given out in some fraction to welfare recipients. He is more suspectible to the latter viewpoint because all his life he has been taught to believe that a man should work for himself to amass as much wealth as he can in ceaseless competition with everybody else...
...what the Beatles say. We all know that politics in-the-streets has its problems; that bruality and anarchy are risky and ugly. But we also know that far greater brutalities than any protesting students can bring about are committed everyday by governments, and that reality makes the Beatles' viewpoint trivial, insensitive, and unnecessary...
...before consulting them. L.B.J., aware that a refusal on Fortas would also block his nomination of Old Friend Homer Thornberry to Fortas' putatively vacant Associate Justice seat, could only whistle down the wind. "We shouldn't allow a little group to prevent the majority from expressing its viewpoint," he said. That, so far, is precisely what has happened...
...that nearsighted view of progress, says Williams College's Sheafe Satterthwaite, lies the crux of the problem: American industrial architecture can be preserved only if the people's viewpoint is changed...