Word: viewpoint
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...that she will not develop an isolated viewpoint," well-developed Shirley Temple, 11, terminated her contract (she will get a final payment of $300,000), retired from the screen...
...classmates, top-notch musicians but scholarship men, can't afford the money in addition to the time. Only the prospect of a Chicago trip--and it was finally called off--kept a goodly number of the other hundred band members in the organization this year. From any viewpoint, the Band pays high for the privilege of playing, and the dollar marks mixed in with the notes are bringing out some sour music...
...Nieman Fellows, engaged in such a profession as they are, cannot but be interested in social, political, and economic problems. It is these problems that they analyze in their everyday work. To Harvard's attempt to see these issues from as wide a viewpoint as possible, the Fellows from the South have contributed a great deal. President Roosevelt has called the South "the nation's No. 1 economic problem," but Harvard has learned from its Southern guests that many of the South's problems are also the nation's, and that it does not help matters to blame all evils...
...this day of bureaucracy and increased governmental participation in business, it is becoming more and more important for the lawyer to know something about government and economics, and especially about the viewpoint of the experts in these fields...
From the whirlpool of distribution arise occasional cries for a more "practical" education. That liberal education is a myth is the understandable viewpoint of students who have nibbled from all and everything and gained little more than a few points of credit. But when a professor of education propounds this view, it is a sad sign of defeatism--a sign that educators recognize their failure without mustering the courage to combat it. Few would disagree with Professor Brewer's contention that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly...