Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assistant Professor of Government Stephen Macedo, a conservative who had been scheduled to testify against Bork, said that the relatively quick change in the Judiciary Committee's outlook signified that the tide had taken a definite turn against Bork...
...political outlook: I don't think my present politics are important to anybody. I really don't have overwhelmingly strong views about most of these things we've talked about...
...views on privacy and other libertarian ideals soon changed radically, - when Bork realized that his ideological outlook had taken another turn. After a year's sabbatical in England with his family, he returned to Yale in 1969 to find that his once lively seminar with Bickel had "gone flat." Recalls Bork: "When I asked him why, Bickel explained, 'It's because you're not saying those crazy things anymore.' I suddenly realized I'd basically adopted his position." He abandoned his belief that constitutional law could be made to conform to rigid ideological or economic principles. "I gave up trying...
...outlook was obviously affected by his wife's deteriorating health. In early 1971, surgeons had operated on Claire Bork, then only 41, and pronounced her hopelessly ill with cancer. They told Bork she had only six months to live and urged him to withhold the news from her. Instead, the Borks retained new doctors and Claire began a prolonged campaign to beat the disease through operations and chemotherapy. Though she was in remission for much of a decade, the battle finally ended in 1980 when the cancer reached her lungs. "She was determined to fight it until her children were...
Batra's thesis turns on his highly questionable contention that an inexorable cycle brings a depression every 60 years or so. To be sure, Batra is not alone in his gloomy outlook. Many other thinkers, including Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, have drawn comparisons between the perils of 1929 and today. Few of them would agree, however, with Batra's position that an uncontrollable calamity is inevitable...