Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind and much smaller to the body ... In the 19th Century, Jules Verne wrote Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily, not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better, but it buzzed more...
...Slick Flop. He had come, it seemed, to an art style of his own after a good many years of following other people's. "At seven," he says, "I was definitely modernistic in outlook. My first painting was rather like a fumbling Matisse." He grew up to paint slick surrealist canvases. When he showed 30 of them in Dublin three years ago, he sold only two or three; when he hauled out more than 100 in his own Belfast, not a one was sold. Middleton supported his wife and three children by working as a damask designer...
Summer study is necessary for accelerators. For many other men, it is a valuable chance to pick up courses which they cannot otherwise fit into their programs. The present policy denies these students a summer at another college with a different outlook, and it prevents specialists from getting credit for work at schools particularly strong in their fields. To outsiders, the College's stand looks suspiciously like traditional "Harvard snobbery;" for undergraduates, it is both unjust and unnecessary...
...Barney Balaban put on a brave front. Said he: "The consent judgment . . . opens the way to one of the most constructive moves in the history of the corporation." But the constructive move broke up one of the biggest and most profitable U.S. movie companies at a time when the outlook for all moviemakers was none too good. On the other hand, moviegoers would benefit. "Clearances," which now prevent small theaters from showing pictures too soon after their first run, are banned. In many small towns this would give a wider selection of pictures. Among the separation terms...
...squad's meager practice makes the Crimson's outlook especially grim. In the past two weeks the team has had only one game with Milton, and a bare 20 minutes of practice yesterday afternoon. All this has made the players fairly rusty. Ever since Pete Lawson replaced Jack Snelling as center for the high scoring Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris pair, the new line hasn't had enough time to get used to working together...