Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their college time to three years. Acquiring a liberal arts education is, of course, a lifetime affair, and four years' formal study is little enough time. To reduce that period by one more year cheapens the degree that is only significant if it represents a certain maturity of outlook and taste. Even formal education in the liberal arts is more than a check list of books read and a tote sheet of hours spent in class rooms. It includes a slow savouring of the intellectual atmosphere in a college, and the leisure to take part in activities outside the class...
Writes Sir Heneage in the Practitioner: "It would not be a particularly difficult feat...to produce quite a convincing thesis that the present lackadaisical outlook of the country, so repeatedly castigated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a symptom of chronic [barbiturate] intoxication...
...most invertebrate of nations in 1860, we have grown into the most powerfully and efficiently organized people on the globe . . . Our thinking in 1864 was still individual thinking. Today it is largely mass thinking, shaped and colored by mass media of unparalleled and sometimes dismaying potency . . . Our national outlook, once that of the individualistic pioneer, has become a social outlook. Without this pervasive internal change, our new position in the world would have been impossible...
...hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely what makes it over-familiar in terms of adolescence...
...outlook of American Christianity often looks to us rather earthbound, expecting the fulfillment of God's Kingdom here on earth-one might even say . . in the U.S.A...