Word: optimisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The accomplishment, huge as it is, only fixes the price of optimism. Unfortunately, water pollution knows no political boundaries. The Cuyahoga can be cleaned up in Cleveland, but as long as other cities keep dumping wastes upriver, it will remain exactly what it is today-an open sewer filling Lake...
Leon Mann, a social psychologist at Harvard, and K. F. Taylor of the University of Melbourne, report in the Jour nal of Personality and Social Psychology that people in lines are possessed of a curious sixth sense that subconsciously spots the "critical point" when the sup ply of tickets will...
There was no excessive jubilation as yet in the White House, no cheering in the ornate board room of the Federal Reserve. But last week there were some promising signals that the momentum of inflation may be slowing. Policymakers-who have waited with growing impatience for the classic devices of...
"This century began with a great wave of optimism. . .that through the advance of science and technology and the deveslopment of new political forms we'd go on to a greater and happier time," he said. The optimism had declined, as it was discovered that science and democracy held potentials...
People aren't being presented the issues, that's why. If the average American--Well, 'average' is a bad word--if most Americans knew how it really felt to live in a ghetto, they would want to do something about it." Whether or not this qualifies as misguided liberal optimism...