Word: viewpoints
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...democratic country . . . can possibly wage war successfully unless the people are behind it. The people will not be . . . unless they are convinced from their viewpoint that it is a just war. Therefore, the people should be constantly told what the dangers are in the world, how they can best be met and when the time might come when . . . this country must defend itself...
From the book salesman's viewpoint, the lascivious subject matter of the book will count more against it than for it. What one is willing to accept as a realistic picture of conditions of war becomes repulsive when offered as a view of ordinary life. It is an honest obscenity, one that exists in matter rather than in mind, but it may prove too all-pervasive for the American stomach...
...thing to survey the veterans' problem from a cold statistical viewpoint, but quite something else to know intimately the history of hundreds of cases affected by regulations issued under this law and to observe the wholesale injustices worked thereby. Special Review boards which considered the presumptive cases would have had a light task had they been concerned only with ''injuries not even remotely connected with...
When Vice President Victor Cooley of New York Telephone Co. made these remarks a bit nervously last week, he was expressing more than the viewpoint of a $4,900,000,000 corporation. He was paraphrasing the rationalization with which the average telephone subscriber each month consoles himself for failing to act upon his instinctive suspicion that the company is robbing...
Critic Parker's initials, all he ever signed, gave him the nicknames of "Hard-to-Please" and "Hell-to-Pay." But he was seldom vitriolic. His reviews were famed chiefly for their length (1,250 words, at least), their ornate, old-fashioned sentences, their freshness and independence of viewpoint. Boston knew him for a sputtery, gnomelike person who wore a flowing cape for evening, carried a stout bamboo stick, shunned conversation. He did most of his writing between 3 and 5 a. m., always in longhand on yellow ruled paper. Afternoons saw him in his musty, little Transcript office...