Word: viewpoints
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...trial last week even the German Defense Ministry's scar-jawed observer relaxed his set vigilance and smiled when Roiderer sniffled between sobs, "I am against war. I am a pacifist. I wanted to write articles with the material in my little notebook from the pacifist philosophical viewpoint. I am an idealist. I couldn't sell my articles because American editors are so materialistic. Almost nothing of mine was accepted by anybody and in all I received just $13. I wrote not as an enemy of Germany but as an enemy...
...screen version of S. N. Behrman's "Biography" fails to make its point as strongly as did the play. Its softened portrayal of an intolerant young man who is made to see the indiscretion of his attitude by an older woman who has the opposite viewpoint of life, leaves the audience either to ferret out the real meaning of the episode or to take it as merely an entertaining picture. Robert Montgomery is happily less rambunctious than usual and Ann Harding while still sweet, is not nauseatingly...
...from Crane's viewpoint President Nolte is both young and almost an outsider. He has been a director for only two years, although as head of Chicago's Robert W. Hunt Co., biggest firm of consulting, testing and inspecting engineers in the U. S., he has long worked closely with Crane. He lives modestly with his wife and two children on Chicago's South Side, works hard and long, golfs badly, fishes infrequently...
...should be obvious to any true believer in Democracy. Nevertheless, a tendency towards repression, towards the use of coercion to enforce an orthodoxy rigidly if unofficially defined, has been marked recently. It is chiefly as a repudiation of this tendency that the "Student News," however ridiculous or subversive its viewpoint may appear, should be encouraged. One need not believe in the wickedness of Mr. Durant nor in the divine inspiration of "Das Kapital" to be an uncompromising defender of free speech...
...professor feels that it sets forth his point of view or because he feels that it is the best treatment of the subject. The practice does not however make for the best conduct of a course. The man giving the course has lectures in which to present his viewpoint. Reading should be devoted to presenting the point of view of others. At most small assignments in the lecturer's text should suffice to supplement class discussion...