Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
Reporting last year to the Royal Asiatic Society, Sir John Megaw, Director of Public Health in India, declared: "Sixty percent of the village population are poorly or badly nourished. . . . The country is in a state of emergency which is rapidly passing to one of crisis. . . . The outlook for the future is gloomy to a degree. . . . If the entire products of the soil are needed to provide for the urgent needs of the cultivators [as at present], nothing will be left for the payment of rent or revenue. . . . The whole social structure of India must inevitably be rudely shaken...
...Thackeray-"with his warped, middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories...
Witchcraft. The author starts on the premise that all savages are metaphysicians. At the root of their outlook is the fact that they have almost no knowledge of natural laws and almost no conception of cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail, why there are droughts or rains, why arrows miss their mark or why hunters are mangled by beasts. Therefore they ascribe every mishap to the action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them...
...reached Copenhagen last Easter, the team had grown to 250, including the Bishop of Finland and many a Scandinavian socialite. The combined weight of big names, the Groups' persuasive message and a good Press left Bergen, Olso and many a smaller town breathless. Said Tidens Tegn: "The mental outlook of the whole country has definitely changed...