Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearby Los Angeles. Worse, for the long term, was the loss of skilled workers as a result of cutbacks in the aerospace industry, their biggest employer. In 1960, when a group of businessmen got the results of an exhaustive study of the city's economic prospects, the outlook was so gloomy that, as one economist put it, "you could have cut the pessimism with a knife...
Died. George Washington Oakes, 55, one of the New York Times's Ochs (Oakes) clan, who founded in 1947 an idealistic but ill-fated London weekly (American Outlook), later wrote a series of successful walking-tour guides to Europe; from injuries suffered in an auto accident that also killed his wife, Joanna, 49, and only son James, 17; near Brattleboro, Vt., when James, who was driving, lost control on an icy road as the family was returning to the Choate School from a precollege interview at Dartmouth...
What Leary calls the "nongame intuitive insight outlook" is more frankly described by Huston Smith (head of the MIT philosophy department) as religious experience. No less than five of the book's contributors call on William James' Varieties of Religious Experience for a precedent to LSD visions. One writer reports that most LSD subjects receive a "common vision of immortality." They, presumably, have seen through the mortality game. Although both Leary and Huxley insist that LSD is only a means of educating oneself for the normal conscious state, neither really explains why it wouldn't be nicer to spend...
Many a banker around the U.S. found cause for consternation in the President's outlook. They had been convinced throughout the campaign that Lyndon Johnson was a man who harbored a real sympathy for men of business and motives of profit. But what Johnson said took almost instant effect as one of the banks he had most immediately in mind reversed a lending rate hike (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...concern with morality carries him into the religious realm, Hammarskjold becomes infinitely more interesting, both as a thinker and as a man, for it soon becomes clear that the former Secretary-General was a throughgoing mystic inclined toward asceticism. Although his outlook will hardly appeal to all readers, those who can accept the tenets of Hammarskjold's faith-they are not accessible to reason-will respond strongly to his observations on selflessness and love...