Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Archive C. Epps III, dean of students, said Tuesday. Wilson disagrees that this was reason for the ban. "I think that Dean Epps doesn't believe in pluralism. He believes in limiting free speech to only accepted views. He thinks Harvard should be a country club with one certain outlook," Wilson said...
Irony, pathos and wistful disenchantment color the writer's prose. Reflecting on World War II and the Nazi occupation that shaped his outlook, Milosz observed: "The act of writing a poem is an act of faith; yet if the screams of the tortured are audible in the poet's room, is not his activity an offense to human suffering? And if the next hour may bring his death and the destruction of his manuscript, should the poet engage in such a pastime...
...need to develop long-ignored agricultural sectors, a realization that primary health-care must come before open-heart surgery. More Africans have access to education and health care than ever before and, in countries like Kenya and Nigeria, a substantial middle class is taking form. But Lamb's overall outlook for the continent is not optimistic...
Reagan will probably capture much more of the rural Texas vote than Ford did, whittling down the Carter total. In booming Houston and Dallas, increasingly the home of transplanted Yankees with a moderate Republican outlook, Vice-Presidential Candidate George Bush is expected to help. If Texas is a must for Reagan, it could be the Alamo for Carter. Since Texas was admitted to the Union in 1848, no Democrat has been elected President without carrying the Lone Star State...
This said, there still is something remarkably touching about those who do not let bad enough alone, perhaps because their errors are errors of the heart. Who but a genuine innocent-in outlook, if not in conduct-would be so bold or dumb as to put his life on the line like that? Not a Frenchman, certainly, who would regard a scandal as droll; nor an Englishman, to be sure, who would regard it as an honor. No, only an American would blunder forth as in the Agee case, openly advocating fair play, the merit system, and the rights...