Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this change has advanced is uncertain, but that it is making giant strides is certain. The literature of the sophisticates has a very strong vogue. A certain moral squeamishness and affectation has disappeared: facts, rather than romantic fallacies, govern youth's outlook more and more. This generation has looked into the past and not the good men, but those who have seen life in its completeness. And today youth, with "A Professor" in its ranks, looks beneath the respected traditions of conduct, and tries to see life whole...
...Lauds Outlook...
...care a great deal. I ought to, but I don't. One might read its book section and still be woefully ignorant of current publishings. For books, I depend on the book section of The New York Times. When I have read a New York daily, The Outlook and my special publications in Science. TIME contains nothing of interest to me which I have not already seen. The first section of TIME, called "Mr. Coolidge's Week" (pardon me if I say it) sounds like the items of neighborhood gossip in a country newspaper...
...experiencing a sharp rise. Gasoline is being marked up. The steel industry is operating at about 85% capacity, while other metallic industries are doing well. Automobile companies, despite keen competition, anticipate good business this coming year. Except for a handful of roads, among them the St. Paul, the railroad outlook is singularly good. Moreover, the absence of sensation in business at present is a sign of continued rather than merely brief prosperity...
That intolerance which denies free discussion was more befitting the Middle Ages than the twentieth century. In intellectual outlook there seems to have been little progress. "Difference from me" is still the measure of absurdity. The Sanhedrin and the Spanish Inquisition proceeded according to the same theory as the modern dogmatists who think they can limit truth by official mandate...