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...optimist, the Crimson held serve in 1999, showing it could compete, if not dominate, on the national level. But losing as quietly as it did does not reassure. The magic of Stillwater, Okla. and Baton Rouge, La. can be resuscitated, but the Harvard bats will have to match its arms in their zeal...
Before Keynes, economists were gloomy naysayers. "Nothing can be done," "Don't interfere," "It will never work," they intoned with Eeyore-like pessimism. But Keynes was an unswerving optimist. Of course we can lick unemployment! There's no reason to put up with recessions and depressions! The "economic problem is not--if we look into the future--the permanent problem of the human race," he wrote (liberally using italics for emphasis...
...Schaffer was an optimist, in spite of it all, and her sons recall the inspirational posters that she would hang on the refrigerator door when they were younger. "My mom encouraged me to `reach for the stars' and taught me the importance of believing in myself. She got me to believe in myself because she truly believed in me, in everything that I ever tried to do," Ryan says...
...Schaffer was an optimist, in spite of it all, and her sons recall the inspirational posters that she would hang on the refrigerator door when they were younger. "My mom encouraged me to 'reach for the stars' and taught me the importance of believing in myself. She got me to believe in myself because she truly believed in me, in everything that I ever tried to do," Ryan says...
Jennifer Little '99 and Ezra Keshet '99 are perfectly cast as Cunegonde and Candide, lovers who travel the world searching for each other. Keshet, with his naive expressions and constant smile is exactly the kind of optimist Candide should be--a character who believes that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire is parodying a certain strain of Leibniz). Keshet shows off his excellent voice in "It Must Be Me" and the last few numbers, while Little, as Cunegonde, displays the range and quality of her voice in the solo number "Glitter...