Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee but held no voting rights. However, Kenneth M. Kaufman '69, a former chairman of the HRPC, in a letter to the Faculty said he did not think there were "any issues strictly internal to the Faculty; and that on every issue students could contribute a valuable viewpoint and perspective." Subseqeuntly, the HRPC asked for full voting rights on the Committee...
Nicholas Kristof, in his editorial "Giving the PLO the A-OK," bases his viewpoint on a number of gross misrepresentations...
...member, that he had simply donated "six or seven hours of my time," and that he didn't want to "cause the group any trouble." Days later Goetz explained that Walsh definitely was not a member, although the group "appreciated (his) time and effort in clarifying the pro-condominium viewpoint." Walsh may not be a member, whatever that legally means, but his ties with the group seem strong. An interesting footnote: Walsh, a trustee of Harlow Properties, was involved in several of the condominium sales to group members...
...line with this, Sagan's watchword is a citation from Bertrand Russell: "William James used to preach the will to doubt." This is, of course, a sound scientific viewpoint. What's awry in Broca's Brain is that Segan doesn't practice this, save for one chapter. His essay on Emmanuel Velikovsky takes a once popular but porous theory explaining a series of converging mythological catastrophes and subjects it to an exacting analysis. This piece, three times as long as any other, is the most interesting, the most developed, and certainly the most scientifically responsible in the book...
...Schultz is dazzled by wealth and privilege, just as wealth and privilege are made giddy by his own crude energy. But Donleavy seems not to have asked himself how he feels about these matters, and the disappointing result of this lack of viewpoint is a comedy that is mostly mere commotion...