Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the course, Thernstrom presented an optimistic outlook about the direction of ethnic and race relations in America. Perhaps not everyone agrees with this attitude. I did not; I've always had a more cynical approach to the future of American race relations. But this is a difference in attitude, not an offense. It is an issue to be discussed, not a crime to be reported. An optimistic outlook is not an indication of insensitivity...
...year flashback to Albright and Dick Button, a Harvard doctor and lawyer who won gold medals in their free time, Thomas, 20, is a Stanford premed student with an out-of-fashion perspective. "Maybe I have different values, I don't know," she says. "But I think my outlook on life has been my advantage. Things like the importance of an education and being whatever you can be give me an inner strength to pull things...
...plot) to the role of egalitarian wartime food rationing in dismantling the old British class structure. The budding artist coolly looks on everything -- from his mother's death during World War II bombing to his own accidental hastening of an aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers most of the book's considerable suspense. Comparisons to Dostoyevsky are not out of order...
...central conflicts--between family members and between clinging to the past or moving on--are time-less. Wilson's work is suffused not only with a sense of the struggle of Blacks in America but also with a sense of the deep, haunting nature of family resentments. Wilson's outlook is reminiscent of Tennessee Williams. Unfortunately, he also shares Williams' flair for excess. No one in this play ever says one word where 10 or 12 will...
...outlook, however, remains bleak for a team which has made the ECAC semifinals two years...