Word: views
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Agnew stoutly maintains that he is for both equality and betterment of the Negro's lot, even while he takes a harsh view of trouble in the streets. In fact, his attitude is similar to that of many first-and second-generation Americans who had to work hard for a living. Many urban programs seem to them a giveaway to the lazy, something-for-nothing. Agnew's father, a Baltimore restaurateur (the Piccadilly and the Brighton) went broke during the Depression and had to sell vegetables from the back of a truck. While many were surprised at Agnew's unyielding...
Nixon's tribute came as no surprise to the Washington press corps, whose members view Broder as perhaps the nation's top political correspondent. He has earned his reputation not with flamboyance but with meticulousness. Refusing to be confined to Washington, he thrives on the grueling cross-country chicken-and-peas circuit. Day in, day out, he lives with politics. The result is bedrock grounding in the workings of U.S. politics. "I admire the professionals who stay with it," he says, "who don't lose control of themselves in emotional binges, who view politics...
...Durants reject the gloomy view that man is in a dismal rut. Modern existence, precarious, chaotic and murderous as it is, is a vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...
However, it is the former view that dominates the press. Instant international theoreticians of ethnic profiles see in the Ibo a harmonious fusion of the judaic and christian traditions. If indeed this were a relevent category for the discussion of the Nigerian civil war, it would truly represent a tremendous cultural achievement for an African society, in view of the bloody antagonisms which have characterized these two traditions for much of Western history. Unfortunately, the category is irrelevent. Concocted as it was out of political expediency, this image now makes it difficult for the foreign observer to retrieve the objective...
Only one perspective on the current Czech crisis is popular in the United States. According to this view, Czechoslovakia, a stubbornly courageous nation determined to escape communism, waits tensely in the shadow of annihilation cast by her oppressor of the last 20 years, Russia. Violence might erupt any moment...