Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"There is a possibility that for some period of time, the temporary relocation of some Harvard students may be necessary. We are hopeful that that will not be necessary," Brewer said.
The signs are hopeful. The Australian Films Office has just opened in Beverly Hills, on the expectation that something like eight Australian movies will be released in the U.S. in the coming year. This week the A.F.O. is sponsoring a festival of Australian films, old and new, at New York...
Western religion has always had trouble justifying its beliefs, resorting in the last analysis to exhortations to "Take it on faith." Fine, if as a result of faith people could experience their own innermost being and achieve religious ecstasy. But except for a few mystics and saints who starve themselves...
There have been two waves of Kennedy historiography. The first wave mythologised the slain president and created the stained-glass image of a man who could do no wrong. In foreign affairs he was depicted as the great "liberal" who had saved the world during the Missile Crisis and led...
Yet her native optimism persuades Whitman that sense and sanity will ultimately prevail. She is hopeful that the world trade negotiations, now grinding slowly in Geneva, will reach a creative conclusion by their Dec. 15 deadline. Such talks are a classic chicken game, and nothing is ever decided until the...