Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Beckett's Waiting for Godot is--despite most critics--an optimistic work, the title of Happy Days is blatantly ironic. Throughout the play, the outlook--both literal and figurative--is bleak. Death and annihilation are imminent. The whole work is a study in irony--and the irony, in both word and action, is heightened by the ludicrous situational context. And it is ludicrous. In spite of all the pathos and the spectre of death. Happy Days is on balance a comedy. Many of Winnie's actions are highly funny, and she is by no means reluctant to crack puns...
High-Strung Huddles. The President summoned half a dozen congressional leaders to the White House, quizzed them anxiously on the outlook for pushing a compulsory-arbitration measure through Congress. The legislators made it plain that they wanted to avoid those brambles, that an arbitration bill would not get through Congress without opposition, and that in any event it would be impossible to rush a bill through before the strike deadline...
...than 7% in 1961. Retailing, oil and chemicals appear to be heading for bumper years. Steel's future gleams so brightly that Hamilton's Steel Co. of Canada launched a $118 million expansion program last week, and Dominion Foundries & Steel has announced a $20 million expansion. The outlook for farm machinery is "excellent, first-class," says George Vincent, president of Cockshutt Farm Equipment. Automakers expect a 24% production increase this year to a record 530,000 cars. "My crystal ball reads five years of real good times," says American Motors (Canada) President Earl K. Brownridge...
...comprised nearly 30% of Canada's population, they held only 13% of the responsible jobs in civil service. They found that although Canada was officially bilingual, French was a working language only in Quebec-a manifestation of what Quebec Natural Resources Minister Rene Levesque calls "the Kenya colonist outlook." He adds: "There are already people asking why the English have so many rights and privileges in Quebec when the French don't have them elsewhere...
...terrible mistake, all right, sending a well-meaning ninny like Sellers to take over the parish of Orbiston Parva, home of the great three-in-one restorative, Tranquilax ("A sedative! A stimulant! A laxative!"). Everyone is outraged by the, new vicar's unfashionably golden-rule outlook except a profane and prolific family of Smiths. When the Tranquilax interests toss the Smiths out of the meadow where they have been squatting in grapes-of-wrath raunchiness. Sellers invites them to come live in the vicarage-goat and all. Soon he is up to his bicycle clips in holy hot water...