Word: viewpoints
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...Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first Ku Klux Klan, the cinema had its first "colossal." But on the heels of the picture came race riots and cries of racial bigotry...
...These people don't know the true war or else they have inhuman feelings for other people. I believe in a new system." When friends press him about it, he says doggedly: "I don't care about a name, but something have to came. My viewpoint is more than political...
Commissioner Hennock claims no particular experience in her new field. She feels that lack of experience may be all to the good. ("Senator Brewster* wanted an unbiased, fresh viewpoint, away from the industry.") Last week she outlined her approach to the job: "It seems fundamental that in this field-so peculiarly affecting women-the viewpoint of their sex should be presented...
...affection appears when Tracy plays wing-tip tag with a business underling over an airfield. They barrel-roll among the clouds for all the world like long lost brothers. This is during the people-are-everything stage. A little later, when Tracy momentarily shifts to the votes-are-everything viewpoint, he tells the same underling to stop playing and get back to building airplanes. All in all an amazing sequence...
...From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the ridiculous. It is hard to believe that the family would remain convinced that Mama's imaginary bank account was real; but acceptance of this anyth is so credibly presented that it isn't questioned. Well selected close-ups of the children's faces enhance the authority of Mama...