Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the modern outlook came in 1905, with the publication of Albert Schweitzer's two-volume musicological study J. S. Bach. Besides illuminating the context of Bach's works and propounding a more scrupulous performing style, Schweitzer showed that many seeming peculiarities in Bach came from his "pictorial" method of wedding music to text: a wiggling melody when a line refers to a Biblical serpent, an upward line when mists rise...
...pull only one job so as to write with authority. In years past, apprehended shoplifters would often break into tears and beg for leniency. Not today. According to the security manager of a State Street store in Chicago: "Their attitude now is one of hostility and belligerence. Their outlook is 'I don't care. I've been there before.' And there's more violence-just the other day one of my people was bitten when she made an arrest...
With a homogeneous Cabinet sharing Nixon's outlook, the second-level officials will become even more important, especially in State, Labor, and Treasury. The clearest early indication of Laird's attitude at the Pentagon will be what type of man he names to replace Alain Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, or whether the post is filled at all. The new Commissioner of Education can indicate what the Administration's attitude toward student protesters will be and its decision on the financial crisis of higher education Nixon's soft approach to civil rights enforcement might be hardened...
...three-man Council of Economic Advisers under President Eisenhower from 1956 to 1959. After he returned to Michigan, McCracken befriended a number of educators, auto company executives and newspaper publishers, some of whom dine with him every month in an informal club, relish his summations of the economic outlook. Since Election Day 1968, he has directed Nixon's policy task forces...
...outlook for capital spending has improved largely because general business conditions are looking better. Demand for steel is strong; output has climbed for four straight weeks. Sales of 1969-model autos have been racing at a record annual rate of 10.3 million cars (see story, p. 94). New factory orders rose 4% in October, the biggest improvement this year. Sales of new houses are increasing despite punitive price tags and pumped-up mortgage rates. Housing starts will probably rise from 1,290,000 in 1967, to 1,500,000 this year. Building-industry analysts anticipate about...