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...mark of an optimist in the waning days of the McGovern campaign was a hope that the election would be closely contested in the industrial states of the North. For even if these states could not carry McGovern to victory, they could save him from total, pulverizing defeat...
Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, is an optimist...
...know I'm an optimist, but wouldn't it be great to win the Ivy League championship in my first season. I like to think I'm a winner and I really believe we can give it a good shot...
...homestead and grain mill, built in 1797, is now a museum run by the Shriver Foundation. Sargent prepped at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to graduate cum laude from Yale. As editor of the Yale Daily News, Shriver, a Catholic, once proudly described himself as "Christian, Aristotelian, optimist and American." After graduating from Yale law school, he joined the Navy and fought the war on battleships and in submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific...
That kind of sentiment is typical of Laurel McKelva Hand, who is the Optimist's Daughter by his first long, happy marriage. Morally exacting and spiritually stern, Laurel is very much her mother's girl. The Optimist himself is gruff, generous Judge Clinton McKelva of Mount Salus, Miss...