Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unifying tone. Gone is the strident rhetoric of the past. Now he talks expansively of bringing people together. He told TIME, "People should properly look at a political party not as a club or a religion, but as a means for uniting people with a common viewpoint about how the Government should be run. I don't ask for written-in-blood pledges. I am arguing that the Republican Party comes closest today to representing what the majority of the people in this country want...
...delegate selection process tends naturally to send loyal hardliners as representatives to a convention. But beneath the bluster must be some indication that Reagan will govern effectively if elected, with an eye cocked to the wishes and interests of all Americans. And some signs that the moderate viewpoint will not be overlooked...
...bloodiest clashes in years, a fight on Nov. 3, 1979, that pitted one extremist group against another and deeply disturbed the town of Greensboro, N.C. Bermanzohn is a member of a leftist group called the Communist Workers Party, which until late last year had been known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization. Though W.V.O. members had been trying to organize textile workers, most of whom are black, in and around Greensboro, the first stir of trouble came last July in China Grove, N.C., when two W.V.O. workers invaded a Klan rally and burned a Confederate flag. When the W.V.O. organized...
That question has arisen only in the past few years, as the U.S.S.R. has caught up with the U.S. in the accumulation of weapons that would be used if the two countries ever went to war with each other. From Moscow's viewpoint, the question was given particular force by the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when John Kennedy faced down Nikita Khrushchev and forced him to remove Soviet rockets from the island. A relieved Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State, added a memorable phrase to the annals of diplomacy when he commented at the time: "We were eyeball...
...modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity or to the principles of narrative that would emerge in Proust or Joyce. The supremacy of the fixed viewpoint, embodied for 500 years in Renaissance perspective, was challenged by the new mode of describing space that Picasso and Braque had developed in a supreme effort of teamwork...