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...interest in Jewish heritage and customs does not seem to be accompanied by any sweeping resurgence of faith in God. A survey conducted for Reform rabbis last year showed that 37% of Reform youth regarded themselves either as agnostics or atheists. Yet Rabbi Schindler, who calls himself a "cockeyed optimist," feels the return to tradition is a harbinger of a return to a more spiritual faith. "There was a time in Reform when it was a sin to read a prayer in Hebrew unless you knew the translation," he points out. "Now we know there can be a language...
...court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. Occasionally, we do quite well with it. So you can see I've grown to be much more of an optimist than I was when I got off the freight train that brought me to law school. There's a fine group of people in this country, people who badly want to do the right thing. That's the strength of the United States...
...unfortunate New England Patriots? Have you ever given an operative thought to what a poor, often-kicked-around individual he is? What kind of pressure he takes week after week? What sort of frustration builds inside him while he watches Chuck Fairbanks and his Foxboro Follies? What sort of optimist this great fan must be to sit through four periods of a Pats game...
...fact, for the past five months the jobless rate has stubbornly held at 5% -a figure that few other industrialized nations would tolerate. May figures due out this week could show some decline. Yet even Herbert Stein, head of the Council of Economic Advisers and an eternal optimist about the economic outlook, predicts that the jobless rate will drop only to about 4.5% by year's end. That expectation has led the Administration to redefine "full employment" by dropping the old numerical target of a 4% unemployment rate and shoot instead for a condition in which persons who want...
...Robert Coles and Eudora Welty, the psychiatrist and the novelist, who had both written, at least in part, about the South: Coles with Volumes II and III of Children in Crisis, which describes his work with sharecroppers, migrant workers and ghetto children, and Welty with her short novel The Optimist's Daughter. Two younger writers were also among the prizewinners: Frances FitzGerald, 32, for Fire in the Lake, a study of American involvement in Viet Nam, and Jason Miller, 34, for his play about a middle-aged basketball team, That Championship Season...