Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlook in Viet Nam, reported Mansfield bluntly, is "grim and discouraging." Diem is a virtual prisoner in his residence, the victim of "an incredible campaign of subversion by intrigue." His "constructive program . . . remains largely a paper program. It is kept that way by a kind of conspiracy of noncooperation and sabotage by those who oppose him." The army "is on the way to being converted into the private army of its commander" for political use, said Mansfield. "The petty-power groups in South Viet Nam appear completely oblivious to the overhanging shadow of the Viet Minh, which before long...
EVER since Stalin died, I have cherished the hope that there is a new outlook in Russia, a new hope of peaceful coexistence with the Russian nation, and that it is our duty, patiently and daringly, to make sure whether there is such a chance or not. It is certainly the interest of the Russian people, who have experienced a terrible half-century of war, revolution and famine, to have an easier and more prosperous generation. While I have life and strength I shall persevere in this. But there is one risk that we must never run. Our policy...
...bank (savings last month hit a new high of $25.5 billion), and that vital factor that no economist can assess, the willingness to buy. In the first half of 1954, said the Commerce Department, spending for personal consumption hit a new peak annual rate of $233 billion. The outlook for the rest of the construction industry also seemed bright. The Associated General Contractors of America polled its members (80% of the industry) and noted that building outlays of all types this year should hit $36.5 billion, up $17 billion from...
...this point a new police chief (Vittorio De Sica) comes to town. A middle-aged bachelor with a broad outlook, he makes a play for Gina, soon oversteps himself and falls in the river. That same afternoon, when Gina gets in a street fight. Chief De Sica takes his chance to clap her in the clink. But when he goes to her cell in the dead of night, Gina touchingly tells him that she is worried about her donkey. The police chief goes ruefully off to give the brute some hay. Gina of course gets the man she wants...
...also giving a couple of hours to the grueling decision. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government; Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Social Relations; and Ira O. Scott, Leverett House associate tutor. Beer, an expert on parliamentary structures and recently returned from England, is expected to bring a European outlook to the judging. Sorokin is the director of the Institute of Creative Altruism. Scott will represent the Leverett taste...