Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Positive Outlook. The institutions are moving back in because the market is sturdier than a month or two ago, and offers some good buys among the blue chips. The market has successfully absorbed a series of new stock offerings (notably General Aniline's), which normally bleed cash from other stocks, and it has weathered the usual rush of tax selling before April 15. On the international front, the U.S.'s military gains in Viet Nam, the nation's apparently successful campaign to narrow its balance-of-payments deficit and Britain's determination to solve its problems...
...that "the man" did do Malcolm in, though I doubt it. But never mind. What really bothers me is the simple-minded view of reality behind the tendency to blame "the man" for everything bad that happens to black men. I am fed up with this "goddamn-white-man" outlook. It is cheap, irresponsible, and has nothing to contribute to the resolution of the nasty problems of race in this wretched world. It is high time we confront the fact that we are often responsible ourselves for a lot of bad things that happen to us; that blacks, at home...
...history of our situation is so much more complex than the "goddamn-white-man" outlook would allow. The Black Muslim talk about "the blue-eyed devil who enslaved us" is really just so much nonsense. Africans, after all, willfully sold their kith and kin, your ancestors and mine, into slavery to the New World. What is more, the African chiefs and middle-men who participated in the slave trade were aware that thousands on each slave ship would die like dogs of diseases before reaching their destination in Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, or the American South. This...
...Charles Playhouse's excellent production heightens O'Casey's humor, but as an ironic foil for his sadness. The characters' sanguine outlook keeps them from taking themselves or their situation too seriously. They have time for funereal jokes while artillery shells are bursting near them. They take the the edge off their political fervor by going home with a prostitute...
Surviving Nationalization. At the helm of John Brown is Lord Aberconway, 51, a pleasant, unprepossessing product of Eton and Oxford, who succeeded both his father and grandfather as chairman. Lord Aberconway stresses Brown's broad outlook: "We call our selves engineers and shipbuilders...