Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Story Outline: We start off with two families, both very different in outlook. Jeanine's family is well established in Boston. Her mother is the usual enlightened square. Her father is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He has sold his soul to the Pentagon but has brainwashed himself into believing he still serves the community, his university, and the nation. He has no clue that he is, in fact, an absolute fink...
...think marriage while in college is feasible if finances, health, and academics make it possible. My early marriage has given me a favorable outlook on college marriages," he says...
...Smear. The difference in outcome reflected no difference in generational outlook. No. 1 Son echoes his father's conservatism and, on one issue at least, is even farther to the right. While Barry Sr. favors lowering the voting age to 18, his son opposes the change. That kind of talk goes down well in the 27th District. Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking...
...outlook more than in anything he has planned or done in his short tenure, Finch gives promise of being a good, perhaps even a great general in domestic battle. On the surface he is super-ordinary, the all-American boy grown up. Blond, blue-eyed, ruggedly good-looking at six feet, he has been an Eagle Scout, prizewinning college debater, Marine officer. He is a devoted father of four (three girls, 18, 13 and 11, and a boy, 15) and the husband of his college sweetheart...
...This outlook has its effects on Calkin's approach to Harvard. Back when the University's failure to invest in ghetto businesses was a hot issue, Calkins explained the Corporation's reluctance. The gesture was pointless, he said. Harvard simply did not have the power to solve the problem. If students really cared about helping the ghetto, they should put pressure on the government to wield its might there...