Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This University exists for one purpose--the search for truth. And as history shows, truth is not to be found in ideological rigidity, but in the flexibility of viewpoint and constant questioning of our assumptions that ultimately comes from diversity. Unless Harvard changes course, it will stagnate with a faculty ossified by background and academic standards. Only a school with a more visionary conception of its faculties and the role of minorities and women in them can claim to be the world's greatest university...
...while it tells all, Gilbert's final volume tells it mainly from Churchill's viewpoint. Like the installments that preceded it, Never Despair gives little indication that, as his early critics noted, Churchill was often "a genius without judgment," a man with "a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain." As Manchester aptly observes, Churchill and his archenemy Hitler were alike in more ways than either would have cared to admit: both were brilliant orators capable of inspiring millions; both possessed wills of almost superhuman intensity; and both were meddlesome war leaders who constantly second-guessed their generals...
...think he's the greatest man ever to run for vice president of the United States," said Students for Quayle supporter Justin Graham '92. Quayle represents an entirely new viewpoint in American politics, Graham added...
...kick in the lederhosen with his spare, psychologically penetrating productions of the 1950s and '60s. In 1976 French Enfant Terrible Patrice Chereau booted it out the door entirely with a conception that updated the story to the Industrial Revolution and nascent Marxism. Now comes Kupfer, with a daring viewpoint that is as Teutonic as Wolfgang's thick Franconian accent...
From the Soviet viewpoint, the West is a seamy bastion of greedy capitalists and sleazy businessmen. But thanks to recent economic reforms, some of these unsavory characters are now turning up at home. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week announced a Western-style remedy for dealing with the profiteers: a graduated income tax on private ventures...