Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect insofar as it contributes to the aesthetic value. "Forever Amber" and "Shore Leave" can and should be condemned only from this aesthetic standpoint, any other criticisms must be recognized as moral ones. Morality is the brass knuckles of artistic criticism...
...soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against her will, while her real lover waits next door. He is tricked into releasing her, and receives a beating and almost a fate worse than death--from his standpoint--for his pains in chasing the second woman. It's not too difficult a plot, and its possibilities for humor are made the most of by the cast...
...understand, from the standpoint of the Christian faith, that man cannot complete his own life, and can neither define nor fulfill the final mystery and meaning of his historical pilgrimage, is not to rob life of meaning or responsibility. The love toward God and the neighbor, which is the final virtue of the Christian life, is rooted in an humble recognition of the fragmentary character of our own wisdom, virtue and power...
Control with a Vengeance. Actually, even among the farm groups, hardheaded farmers looked skeptically on Charlie Brannan's rabbit. From the farmer's standpoint, the suspicious part of the deal was that it would also give the Government more power to decide what farmers could plant, how they could sell. A limit would be placed on how many benefits a farmer would receive from the Treasury, but this, said Brannan, would really encourage smaller farms; it would hit only the big farms making up 2% of the nation's 5,800,000 farms. Thundered Vermont...
Funny Things About the Stars. At 22, at the University of Chicago, she wrote a Ph.D. thesis entitled "A Study of Prayer from the Standpoint of Social Psychology." After arguing her thesis with the faculty, she ran out into the darkness and "threw a kiss to the stars. 'Your loveliness,' I cried, 'I've been proving the funniest things about you. I hope you enjoyed that nice debate...