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...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rakehell Genius | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...pleasant schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet, a radical, an art critic, and lecturer with a reputation as one of the wittiest men of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Books, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan Franklin Roosevelt's political right arm, Jim Farley, was having the greatest triumph of his career, not over the Republicans but over his own staff. In a pool on Roosevelt's electoral vote he had bet on 523, 20 votes more than the next biggest optimist, and so doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Master piece | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...optimist by profession if not conviction, B. & O.'s Daniel Willard viewed the pressure from New York Central as definitely "constructive," observing last week: "Where competition ceased, civilization ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Freight Forwarding | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light, he thus bids Apollyon scat : "It leaves you flat, and it leaves every human being flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aesculapian God | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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