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United Front. Even for an inveterate optimist like the Vice President, that seemed an unduly rosy view. The nation's increasingly conservative mood seems to be working against him. His own strategists figure that Nixon and Alabama's George Wallace will roll up 55% to 60% of the total vote between them. They also estimate that Humphrey will have to win 80% of the nation's Negro and Jewish votes, though recent New York polls give him only 60% of those groups in that pivotal area, with 20% still undecided...
...poses these questions? Concerned architects, builders and planners do, and one of them presses the points with special urgency. He is Nathaniel Alexander Owings, a latter-day Jeremiah who is also a devout optimist, and who is the senior partner in America's most forceful and prestigious architectural firm. At 65, Owings is the remaining founder, the central O, in S.O.M.?Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...
...wouldn't have thought that your daemon specialized in happy endings," Wilderness' wife Primrose remarks. Yet that is exactly what Lowry has written, with desperate passion, despite the fact that he considered it "rather a second-rate ambition to be an optimist." Lowry could no more round off his hope than his book. But at a time when the fashion for the novel is basic black-when despair has gone slick-Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid once again gives the struggle between good and evil the dignity of an even match, and the excitement...
Marriage for young Victor's parents was a lifelong state of war in which the children were hostages. Father was a Yorkshire lad. Mother came from London-a "cheeky cockney girl." Temperamentally they were even farther apart. Father was an optimist, a dandy "walking in and out of jobs with the bumptiousness of a god." By the time Victor was twelve, the cab at the door had moved the Pritchetts 18 times. While Mother wept, Father filled those cabs with his bland bass voice...
When his ship Valkyrien foundered on the coast of Scotland in 1883, Danish Captain Peter Maersk MØller thought he saw a seven-pointed star in the sky. Even in that moment of disaster, MØller, an optimist if ever there was one, decided that he had witnessed an omen of good fortune. Apparently he was right: today the family flag, a seven-pointed white star on a light blue field, is known the world over. It flies on 92 freighters, tankers and other vessels of the Maersk Line, over a shipyard and machinery and petrochemical plants, even...