Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armistice Day observances. The contagious enthusiasm of masses of people wholeheartedly experiencing the same emotion is impressive and heartening. As long as such collective recognition of past deeds and their tragic side is periodically engaged in, there will be a strong tendency toward national stability and a level-headed outlook...
...Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...
Surveying "The Occupational Outlook for Youth," Speaker Pitkin observed: "You must become as versatile and quick-witted as possible." Irrepressible as usual was rich old Edward Filene, the Boston merchant whose hobby for 20 years has been talking liberalism. Stormed he: "Those who made money in the last generation might drink champagne when children all over America were crying for milk which they couldn't get. That game is about over now. ... I hail the arrival of a day when power has passed into the hands of the people and we businessmen must obey...
Writing in the May number of the Architectural Record, Walter Gropius, newly chosen professor of Architecture, explains his outlook on his first return to these shores since...
...administer the daily life of the college. For a man holding the position of dean must combine the executive ability to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the personal charm to inspire the confidence of students and outsiders with whom he comes in contact, and the intellectual outlook of a teacher as well as of office manager and publicity man. From the Dean of the College right down the list to the assistant dean of Freshmen these qualities of character and ability must be held, and, if the College is to function smoothly, the only thing that can be dizzy...