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Periodical: Outlook

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

New Outlook.
A Digest of Ideas and Ideals.
1948--1964
Monthly
Los Angeles, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Albert Croissant, Morgan Harris, Hyman Lischner, John Morley, Ernest E. Wood.
Publisher: New Century Foundation.
1/1, January 1948-1964.
10 cents a copy, $1.00-$2.00 a year, 16 pp.

This was an internationalist journal devoted to universal brotherhood and non-interventionism, with regular articles on the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Kahlil Gibran, Leo Tolstoi and other heroes of the internationalist pantheon. It was under the general control of Hyman Lischner, the president and founder of the New Century Foundation, Inc., which "aims to be international in the highest sense. Its members comprise men and women of all races, creeds, and forms of thought, who work together for one object -- the improvement of humanity." He was a homeopathic physician and a member of Katherine Tingley’s Point Loma Theosophical organization and active in the anti-war movement around Charles Lindbergh. Croissant also was a Theosophist.

Other Sources:Graduate Theological Union Library; Stanford University.
Issues:New Outlook V1 N3 Mar 1948
New Outlook V2 N5 Jun 1949
New Outlook V2 N7 Aug 1949
Claude-Generated Themes:   New Outlook was 'a digest of ideas and ideals' published in Los Angeles by the New Century Foundation in the late 1940s — a benign East-West idealist society whose board included the Theosophist Ernest E. Wood. Its pages blend a Theosophical universalism (the brotherhood of man, 'handclasps of East and West', comparative religion) with a light New-Thought vocabulary of demonstration and 'the silence', all framed by a postwar hope for world peace and international cooperation. Much of its content is general humanitarian and cultural writing rather than occult doctrine, so it reads as a bridge between the Theosophical current and mid-century one-world idealism. It should not be confused with the unrelated later organization of the same name.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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