Word: optimismã
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...with “a sense of fair optimism?? that History department chair Andrew Gordon sent a letter proposing seven new faculty searches to University Hall in the spring, expecting an answer by mid-summer in order to advertise new posts and form committees to evaluate candidates...
Elizabeth W. Green ’06, a social studies concentrator in Leverett House, is a an associate magazine editor of The Crimson. She will lose her optimism??and her tolerance for conservatives—when she returns to the Kremlin on the Charles this fall...
...father’s before him, my candidate was an academic who got waxed by a ruthless politician. But as I closed the striped curtain on the voting booth, and again as I read election results online that night, resignation—and not my father’s optimism??dulled my disappointment. Robert Reich had lost and this, I knew, was a symptom of the grinding Massachusetts political machine and of America’s inexorable slide to the right. I knew I would asphyxiate if I held my breath waiting for these things to change...