Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disagree completely with Gardner's outlook, and those who think that it's not what you say but how you say it in things artistic can skip this part of my review and read only my comments about the production, which I enjoyed. It seems to me that The Rain Never Falls makes very little sense if you don't buy some of Gardner's beliefs; his essential assumption being that the great attack will somehow come about because of internal evil, that the greed and weakness of our society will push us over the brink. I cannot share this...
Beloff saw the end of World War II as the time when this country first replaced isolationism with a "Universalist" outlook. American and British ideas diverged at this point, he said; the Americans still thought in terms of great world power and saw their ideas reflected in the United Nations charter, obscuring Churchill's belief that the world was not ready for this sort of organization...
...arms buildup. Kennedy still promised a balanced budget for 1963 "barring extraordinary and unforeseen defense requirements"-and he clearly felt that now is the time to begin working toward it. "Appropriations," he told the heads of federal agencies, "are only a ceiling, not a mandate to spend . . . The current outlook re-emphasizes the necessity to conduct the necessary work of the Government at the lowest possible costs, to eliminate or defer low-priority activities and to limit the number of Government employees to the absolute minimum...
...implanting the idea of a permanently divided Germany, the more tenuous will become the position of West Berlin-as a "showcase" of democracy, as a bastion of freedom, as a city that can live. And the more desperate and uncertain the future of West Berlin, the more ominous the outlook for West Germany...
UNIVERSITY: NEVER ON SUNDAY, supposedly a shocking and corrupting movie by versatile Greek producer-director Jules Dassin ("Rififi"), is at least funny, and consistently so. It has an interesting outlook, and Melina Mercouri too--who is a major part of the outlook. Starts Wednesday: COME SEPTEMBER, a comedy of questionable value starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and (inevitably) Bobby Darin. The story of attempted seduction on the Riviera, it is inconsistently funny, but it has its moments...