Word: outlook
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...outlook here is dark, elsewhere it is bright. In recent years we have had an explosive growth in the academic and scientific community in the United States. In 1900 some 24,000 were teaching in colleges and universities in the United States. By the end of this decade there will be 480,000. The number of students has increased more than in proportion. Where the sources of capital were once decisive in the economy, now it is the sources of highly qualified manpower. This is a community with a natural desire to be heard in public affairs...
Understandably, the President is shifting his public outlook from the punitive war against the North to the U.S.'s more diversified efforts in the South. His attempts to get Ho Chi Minh to a conference table during the first two months of the year failed--principally because Washington refused to extend the Tet bombing pause unless it saw evidence that the North had "reciprocally" reduced its aid to the Viet Cong. Nonetheless, this was an extremely frustrating period for Johnson since public feeling that the war might end had soared...
...villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi's Michel Micombero is only 26) convinced the bush chieftains of his tolerant outlook. He also promised to hold elections in the southern districts now unrepresented in the 233-member Constituent Assembly, which is charged with framing the Sudan's first permanent constitution...
...basic thesis of the New Left is that the world is in the midst of profound cultural and political changes and that the church should make sure that whatever society emerges is Christian in tone and outlook. To a man, its adherents admit to being followers of Karl Marx-not, they explain, the turgid economist of Das Kapital, but the youthful, philosophical Marx who protested against man's alienation in a dehumanized industrial society...
Bohlen likes to go about his business quietly and off-the-record. When he does speak out, however, he rarely presents an ordered or coherent view of international politics. Still, piecing together the patterns in Bohlen's thought, it is possible to arrive at a rough approximation of his outlook on the international situation...