Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expatriate Brown, now teaching at Cornell, wrote that: 1) Canadians are regional in outlook and "regionalist art fails because it stresses the superficial at the expense ... of the universal"; 2) Canadians are strong Puritans and "Puritanism . . . dis-believes in the importance of art"; 3) Canadians live a disguised form of the frontier life where art plays second fiddle to the hockey game and whiskey bottle; 4) for all of Canada's Dominion status, the average Canadian is still colonial-minded - "an unwholesome state of mind in which great art is most unlikely to emerge...
...Admiral Explains. As the outlook brightened, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten finally acknowledged the public dissatisfaction, confusion and concern, took unusual steps to explain. When specific questions were submitted by the A.P., American and British leaders in Ceylon headquarters conferred two days. Then Mountbatten answered the questions and added a statement...
...favored characters is Elliott, the suave expatriate, who dictated from his deathbed: "Mr. Elliott Templeton regrets that he cannot accept Princess Novemali's kind invitation owing to a previous engagement with his Blessed Lord." Another is Suzanne Rouvier, a middle-class courtesan befriended by Larry, whose amiable moral outlook and shrewd achievement of respectability are vintage France and vintage Maugham...
Twenty-one years is a long time as magazines go. Most of the famous magazines of 1923 are gone now-Scribner's, Century, World's Work, Outlook, McClure's, Everybody's, Review of Reviews, Vanity Fair, Forum, Metropolitan, The Literary Digest. Of the ten leading advertising media today only three were in business when TIME began. And of the 13 other magazines which started publication the same year only two remain. So I think every one of us at TIME is deeply conscious on this 21st birthday that any magazine must change and grow with...
...history and much about the U.S. A businessman turned author, a historian who lives with the consciousness (which he has never quite been able to communicate as intensely as he feels it) that American history is epical and epochmaking, James Truslow Adams has held up against his naturally hopeful outlook the insistent forebodings of the U.S. future that his knowledge gave him. In 1934 he wrote: "We are all of us caught, the selfish and the unselfish alike, in the complexities of the modern order. . . . No previous problem has ever made such demands on the highest qualities of both mind...