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John W. Taylor describes his father as "a positively incurable optimist, who went into one business venture after another, convinced that this time he'd make a million. He never did. Instead, he fell dead in a hotel lobby with his drummer's case in his hand." By last week, when John Taylor was inaugurated as president of the University of Louisville, students and professors had come to realize that he had his father's indomitable optimism. In nine months in office (before being officially inaugurated) drawling, 41-year-old John Taylor has drummed up more trade...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...
...China some 900 years ago, there lived a thin-faced little man with a mandarin beard named Su Tungpo. According to Biographer Lin Yutang, Su Tungpo was "an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet...
...Fancy Free (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is another Disney movie that mixes cartoons and live actors. The master of ceremonies is Jiminy Cricket (voice by Cliff Edwards), a faintly oppressive optimist who tries to sell the audience on the debatable idea that in these troubled days the best thing one can do is laugh at cartoons and listen to Dinah Shore. As it turns out, one could do a lot worse...
...future of the Communists' coalition with the Smallholders? A. I am a well-known optimist...