Word: optimisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The baseball team finished its weeklong tour of Florida with a 2-3 record, but with some justified optimism about the upcoming season.
Two Faiths. The Secretary of State was careful not to contradict Laird flatly, even though his testimony was laced with optimism. Whereas Laird gloomily doubted that U.S. troops could soon leave South Viet Nam (but added qualifiers to his doubts), Rogers wanted them back "as quickly as possible." Moreover, said...
Fighting the Morbids. There was a deep vein of inconsolable melancholia in many of Lear's contemporaries, though the age is still notorious for its fatuous, unquestioning optimism. It was Lear's friend Tennyson who wrote
The history of the war is all too painfully graven in false optimism. Again and again, U.S. hopes have been raised by officials armed with gleaming statistics and pollyanna rhetoric. First the U.S. "turned the corner" in Viet Nam; then there was "light at the end of the tunnel," "the...
Although none of Harvard's wrestlers rate among the favorites in any of the weight classes, coach John Lee feels that three of his men have some reason for optimism in the 65th Annual Eastern Wrestling Intercollegiate, which start today at Princeton.