Word: optimistically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being an old-fashioned integrationist and an optimist about the capacity of the current generation of young Americans to rid American life of its hoary racist ways, I would suggest to the Seymour Society that they give some thought to this endeavor. Instead of pursuing the route of other all-Black organizations existing at Harvard--and we have too many already--intensifying the already excessive isolation of white and Black student experiences here, why not strike out a new course for once...
...optimist who refuses to accept as inevitable the decline either of U.S. influence abroad or of traditional American virtues and values at home...
...progress from those beginnings to success on the screen and in politics has made Reagan a sunny optimist. He has great confidence in the individual's ability to make his way in the world, if only the individual is worthy and will put forth an effort, because he did it. And he has a misty nostalgia for the way things were before the Government got big and intrusive, a generalized longing for a simpler world where there were no forms to be filled out in triplicate...
...Vries' latest predictions on the problems caused by OPEC surpluses are being studied closely by bankers and political leaders, since he has long been optimistic about the ability of the world financial system to handle the recycling of petrodollars. During the 1974 oil crisis, most experts forecast that OPEC coffers would be bulging with about $1.5 trillion by 1979 and that loans to LDCs would be insufficient to cover their deficits. De Vries, however, was among a minority of economists who correctly argued that OPEC would rapidly increase its imports and who predicted that international banks could handle...
...Voelpel, an Eagle Scout and eternal optimist, still doesn't have it in him to give up yet. "They're a good young team, and they have a core of players that will be around for a long time. One of these years they're going to get some pitching. . . .I think they're going to be in the World Series within five years...