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McCleery is an affable white-maned optimist of 62. He readily admits that his current lifestyle at Princeton is as fulfilling for him, a man consumed by his devotion to theater, as those days when he was a Broadway collegue of Helen Hays, Hal Holbrook, and Peter de Vrees. He exhibits a paternal fondness toward his students and their work, getting as excited about their plays and productions as about the professional scripts and shows he worked on in the past. He likes their fresh approach to theater, their desire to experiment, and their enthusiasm for their work...
Reston the unflagging optimist became Reston the disillusioned cheerleader. America the great nation had become, for him; the helpless giant. He wrote, "If there has been a decline in American optimism it is not because we do not know how to solve our problems, but because we do not yet know how to discuss them. The politicians insist on pretending that everything is soluble--that we can achieve almost unlimited ends with limited means--and while the people would like to believe it, they increasingly have their doubts" (June 6, 1965 column...
...because steel and chemicals are basic products from which a myriad of other goods are manufactured. Permitting their prices to go up would surely create a ripple of new inflation that would spread through many other industries. Such a surge would add to an inflation rate that even Eternal Optimist Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, concedes may breach...
...There is still a lot of inflation ahead of us," said Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In current context, he rates as an optimist. The Labor Department reported last week that retail prices in October rose at an annual rate of 9.6%, almost triple the September pace, and Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, warned that inflation in the next three to six months will be "unbelievably...
...Doig is an incurable optimist and an incurable liberal. He believes in American democracy like a missionary believes in the goodness of Christ. He believes in the good sense of the American people. He believes that one day good would win out over evil...