Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very talented could hope to get ahead in those years by using merely the knowledge gained through their field of concentration. "Most young men get their first job because they know how to do a specific things, but after that, specialized knowledge is less important than catholicity of outlook, the ability to read and write well, to make friends and meet women...
...control of the business has been remarkably enlightened. Even the critics of its nepotism concede that the family shunts its mediocre members into powerless "drag" jobs. The Du Ponts motivate their hired managers to fierce loyalty by giving them uncommon amounts of power and money. To achieve the outlook and flexibility of a small company, they have broken up their firm into a dozen operating departments that are only loosely supervised from above. A department general manager is like a captain on a ship, free to chart his own course so long as he meets schedules and wins battles...
With the increasingly gloomy outlook in the South Viet Nam war, the Indonesian raids on Malaysia, not to mention the Red Chinese bomb, something obviously had to be done. The most immediate worry: Indonesia (pop. 100 million), with which Australia shares a jungled border on the island of New Guinea; since Australian troops are helping to fight Indonesian infiltrators in Malaysia, Sukarno could easily retaliate by sending infiltrators into Australian-controlled New Guinea...
...Murphy's Senate campaign obviously convinced voters that his outlook toward such extremism has changed substantially. Said Campaign Manager Finch: "I had to find this out for myself before I went to work in the campaign...
Brown called for "the development of a generalized outlook in the social sciences that says that one cannot understand political theory without understanding, say, psychology." He defended the idea that Harvard can expect each undergraduate to study one natural science and "to be familiar with certain basic texts in literature and philosophy...