Word: viewpoints
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...expression of a point of view, however, raises major difficulties. Some subjects, such as natural science courses, are not readily adapted to the expression of a controversial viewpoint. In other fields, many professors, deeply immersed in the complexities of their specialties, feel that any particular orientation would distort history and disfigure art. Knowing all the brambles which invalidate any particular theoretical path, they search for a close approximation of scholarly objectivity. This seems important, not only to avoid spoonfeeding ovine undergraduates, but also because in a world of rapid fluctuation, the only truth is a relative one, the only value...
Childe Hassam (1859-1935) began work as a magazine illustrator and made a good living at it. Three years in Paris opened his eyes to impressionism, and by 1889, when he came home to apply its viewpoint to the American scene, Americans were almost ready to accept the results. Plump, pink and tweedy, Hassam painted pictures that were pretty yet robust, like a small brass band playing in the park...
More specifically, Korn decried the HYRC's methods as "detrimental to the name of Republicanism." He particularly attacked its charges that the Forum is stacked against the Republican viewpoint. "This is completely unsubstantiated," Korn maintained. "The HYRC is simply afraid to debate Republicanism before the Forum...
...Students for Eisenhower" will join the Political Forum in order to "provide a more adequate representation of the Republican viewpoint in debates," Morton Korn '57, president of the club, said last night...
Gussner spoke before the college chapter of the FOR, a national pacifist organization. He attacked what he called the present American viewpoint that the "state is God." "The pacifists believe that social structures should be built up around human values and not around violence and fear," Gussner said...