Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalls how he and Kristol held forth in Alcove No. 1 of the City College lunchroom in contentious dispute with fellow radicals, among them Trotskyites, socialists and other Marxist deviants, while Stalinists crowded into Alcove No. 2). Kristol's is a familiar and not discreditable shift in political outlook: he has described that earlier experience as the best education he ever got, but it did leave him with a certain tendentiousness in arguing. Thus, he complains that the "liberal media Establishment," by which he means the networks, the newsmagazines, the New York Times, etc., has "co-opted the opinion...
...corn-crop outlook shrivels...
What distinguishes Puberty Blues from other films about teenage escapades and painful experiences during rebellious adolescence is its candid outlook at a tightly defined peer subculture. The heroines perceptions are warped by their fascination with being accepted, and their desires for freedom are quelled not by authority figures like parents but by their own burgeoning awareness of their own needs--which do not necessarily include belonging to the cool surfer clique: We identify with Debbie and Sue because their struggles with independence are fresh and vivid, and at times terribly frustrating. Beresford doesn't condemn these characters. Rather he reaffirms...
Thud. The 1,200 women greeted the remark with stony silence and a few muffled moans. "What did he really mean?" Polly Madenwald, the organization's U.S. president, whispered to the woman sitting next to her. The cave man reference, they concluded, reflected a Neanderthal outlook. "To me he seemed to be saying that the only reason we're here is to create families," said Madenwald, a Republican from Hillsboro, Ore. "It was patronizing and didn't address who we are. He was talking to a group of businesswomen from around the world...
...apolitical man, Clark is clearly driven more by his devotion to the President than by personal ambition. The men are strikingly similar in temperament and outlook. They are amiable California ranchers who started out poor and Democratic and are more comfortable on horseback than in desk chairs...