Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
...creation of a new specialized class in baseball brings the question around to the viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, will be the leading speaker. After A. R. Sweezy '29 and E. W. Sexton '29 have presented the viewpoint of the undergraduates who have no part in the work of the Phillips Brooks House, Dr. Coffin will analyze the general student attitude and suggest possible means of promoting further understanding...
...close of Carlton's introduction two prominent undergraduates who are not connected with the Phillips Brooks House will speak briefly, stating the typical undergraduate viewpoint toward the association, and criticising, from that viewpoint, the execution of the purposes...
...politicians call "Progressiveness." A typical Robinson excerpt: "His [Nominee Hoover's] denunciation of the proposal to make the tariff effective for agriculture as 'State Socialism' not only proves his utter lack of sympathy for the desire of farmers to enjoy prosperity, but also his very prejudiced viewpoint...