Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Michel Mourre suffers from psychical disturbance of the schizomaniacal (Claude) type. Pride, desire to show off his personality and to represent himself entirely in his actions . . . Auto-didactism. Blitz philosophico-culture, with motorised arguments, but no main striking force. Highly assured personal modern outlook. Indignant irritation at the suggestion that Being may have preceded existence . . . Vaingloriously established in existentialism...
...them alive ("How cruelly they persecuted us," cried Champlain). In the brushless eastern forests, mammoth trees, standing almost trunk to trunk, rose to heights of 80 feet before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson, "it is a furious animal...
Harvard whitewashed the Engineers, 9 to 0, in last year's game, but the outlook this year is not quite so bright. The Engineers are undefeated in their last four games, while the Crimson has dropped four of its last five. Harvard now stands only one place above M.I.T., halfway down in the New England league standings...
This program, said an oil company executive last year when he finished his course, "broadens the businessman's outlook, his understanding of business, and above all, it forces a man to think, and think seriously about many phases of business which he does not ordinarly consider...
...announcing that it would issue no more mandatory calls to enlisted reservists, the Army said this was in compliance with a recent order of Secretary of Defense Marshall. He directed the armed services to modify reserve policies as a result of the improved outlook in Korea...