Word: optimistically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of its magic touch, and Reagan can no longer even count on the solid support of his own party. He is entering a crucial period when the very substance of his economic philosophy is being tested by reality and challenged by Congress. But the President remains an irrepressible optimist. As he grappled with his economic predicament and the recalcitrance on Capitol Hill last week, he told an old joke about the ever-hopeful little boy who finds himself standing amid a pile of horse manure on Christmas morning. The punch line: "There must be a pony in here someplace...
...Alexandria duet takes a forward step "I am always optimistic by nature," said the President. "I am a born optimist," replied the Prime Minister...
...Well frankly, Colonel," said the Driver. "Pauline Kael says the odds are getting worse, and she's a silly optimist compared to most of them...
...optimist's severest test of character. Thomas Jefferson, who made the "pursuit of happiness" part of the American way of life, kept the faith until he died, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence...
...tried to appease a person who knows war only." An optimist offers proof that homo sapiens is on the ascent: "After all, we were once apes and now we're human. It's a long distance between a gorilla and Mahatma Gandhi." If ridicule is used to illuminate the cast imperfect, Singer is not afraid to turn it on himself...