Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singular power of the Cuban Revolution to excite in its onlookers a deep sense of participation. As the body of literature devoted to Castro's victory grows, more and more books appear implicitly devoted to the impact of the Revolutionary struggle on the author's thought processes and outlook...
...because it appeals to "the most undesirable features of the Canadian character. In these I include not only the mean and underhanded anti-Americanism which serves many Canadians as an excuse for their failure to accomplish anything worthy of genuine national pride, but also the small-town pettiness of outlook that is the shadow side of many Canadian virtues. Far from contributing to the growth of a stronger, more independent nation, Canadian nationalism has been diverting Canada into a narrow and garbage-cluttered...
...more is rottenness confined to the state of Denmark. It has became global, and may well become universal. Knowledge is infinite; wisdom is finite. And for the first time in history, man's knowledge has now surpassed his wisdom to use it. The outlook is bleak; and never before has man so needed Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida...
...outlook began to brighten when Jack Kennedy threw his personal prestige into the fight. He summoned a newly created foreign aid pressure group, the Citizens Committee for International Development (headed by TWA Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson), to the White House and used the meeting as a sounding board for a plea to the American people. "I consider this bill to be probably the most vital piece of legislation in the national interest that may be before the Congress this year," said the President. "We cannot live in an isolated world. And I would much rather give our assistance...
Despite assurances from the economists that a new boom is coming, many a U.S. businessman last week could not conquer an uneasy hunch that for a while yet U.S. prosperity would be a kind of austere affluence. In a panel discussion of the business outlook sponsored by the First National Bank of Chicago, President Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores predicted that steadily rising personal income would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn...