Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform any day and reimpose at least some of the tight discipline of the past. Once fully launched, however, liberalization may not be so easy to stop. The vast reorganization of the Soviet economy and the increasing force of technology are producing a second revolution in the habits and outlook of the people that the Kremlin will be hard-pressed to reverse. If that revolution continues to work its influence, arousing among Russians a longing to join the modern world and giving them a freer voice to articulate that longing, it could ultimately be of more significance than even...
...Russian's outlook has perhaps been altered more by industrialization and urbanization than by any methodical attempt to reshape his consciousness. Nonetheless, he is basically what he has been for centuries. He retains much of his shirokaya dusha, or boundless generosity, his emotionalism, his stolid endurance, his hatred and distrust of authority and, at the same time, his deep need for it. Despite widespread atheism and official disapproval, religion is proving increasingly difficult to root out. The Baptists, who appeal to the Russian soul with their fundamentalism, are growing steadily, now have more than 3,000,000 members. Even...
...liberals, Kennan never went through a Marxist phase. Before and during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted an accommodation with Moscow, but Kennan remained in opposition until the "movement of the pendulum of official thinking from left to right would bring [U.S. policy] close to my own outlook in the years 1946 to 1948, only to carry it away once more in the other direction, with the oversimplified and highly militarized view of the Russian problem that came to prevail after...
Kilson also stated that Black Power's "deep-seated racist tendency and outlook" makes it unacceptable to him as a political form...
...year 1966-67, Stacey reckons that his company has successfully concluded $50 million worth of corporate mergers. Clients give Chesham 4% for the first $1,000,000 paid for the acquired company, with a minimum of 1 % for all amounts in excess of $3,000,000. The outlook for the merger brokers is bright, for as Strathclyde University Professor K. J. Alexander puts it: "The curse of bigness has now been replaced by the cult of bigness." Consolidating the big, unwieldy corporations is only a start. England is still a country of almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways...