Word: viewpoints
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...called "good Catholic" all my life, I find that the majority of happy marriages among Catholics are those in which the couples either practice birth control (in one form or another) or find it very difficult to conceive anyway. Most of the avid advocates of the church's viewpoint are in the latter category, and I'm sick of it. There are many people-Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and what have you-who want a great many children, and for them that's fine, but my very happy marriage to a fine non-Catholic could easily be ruined...
This novel is a soy-pp. crying jag. The tears are shed for life as a lost cause. Such a melancholy viewpoint seems to come naturally to the Southern school of U.S. writers of which Virginia's William Styron is an unevenly talented member. Characteristically, most Southern writers equate the post-bellum fate of their region with the universal fate of man, and identify decline with tragedy. Amid romanticized passivity, violence erupts in Gothic melodramas of rape, murder and madness. Among the few exceptions: some of William Faulkner's Negroes, who achieve the dignity of stoic endurance. Unfortunately...
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...managing editor is a choleric refugee from The Front Page, whose English is baser than basic ("Crapola! Crapola! Crapola!"). As a roman a clef, or key-to-reality-novel, the book unlocks some fairly intriguing trade gossip. But as literature. View from the Fortieth Floor lacks a consistent viewpoint, simply upends a wastebasket of facts and scans the litter like tea leaves of doom...
...would have been delighted to take him around to see both the good and the bad." The moderate leaders of the city's business community also complain that Salisbury snubbed them, argue that the extreme racists cited in the articles are not the true caretakers of the white viewpoint. The moderates state that Salisbury dealt with the worst examples of racial violence, created an illusion of perpetual strife, and overlooked the fact that Birmingham Negroes have the highest standard of living of any in the South...