Word: outlook
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...sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss and medical science tell him all he needs to be cured is rest and a more optimistic outlook, Grant's is a presence to be treasured...
UNLIKE the wary eye I cast on Black Greeks, I cast smiling eyes on York Eggleston's new edition of Outlook. A couple of the essays are intellectually exquisite, especially one by Kelly Mikelson, called "Mixed," about growing up as a light-skinned Black in a white foster family in Iowa. There are also several fine poems by Lisa White and Kevin Young...
Unlike the memory of battles with Greeks that the delegation to Dean Epps brought to mind, the current issue of Outlook reminds of the exciting intellectual activity among a group of Harvard Black students during my early teaching days in the 1960s. A group of Black students (among them Ayee Queh Armah, now a novelist; Lee Daniels, now a New York Times correspondent, and Robert Hall, now a college professor) came up with the idea to found a journal--The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--and I and Archie Epps, then an assistant dean of freshmen, joined them as advisors...
While our now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--published for several years--shared Outlook's interest in the many-sided issues of ethnic selfidentity, it extended its focus much farther afield, to national political and social concerns facing Afro-Americans. I hope further editions of Outlook do likewise. I did sense a tendency in the current Outlook to over-indulge selfidentity concerns--a tendency that leads ultimately to an intellectually stultifying narcissism...
Nevertheless, Outlook is a very serious enterprise by an intellectually engaged group of Harvard students. There are numerous areas of Black American life requiring serious attention from Harvard Black students. The poor reading, writing and math performance of Black public school students in inner cities cries out for tutorial assistance from Black college students (and from white, Asian, and Hispanic students too.) Such a program, in order to be effective, will have to sustained over the next 20 years perhaps...