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...overestimate our strength. I suppose the U.S. or U.N. could send in armies." He stopped and chuckled. Grinning slyly, dimpling his jowls like an old grey cherub, he said: "There is an Israeli story that people used to tell back in the early days when food was short. The optimist was the hungry settler who said: 'We don't have enough food, what we should do is send a few planes to bomb Washington. Then the U.S. would invade and occupy us and everything would be all right because they will have to feed us.' The pessimist...
...Optimist met pessimist at the Law School lorum last evening as The Rt. Hon. Chuter Ede, former British Home Secretary, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, discussed and argued the problem of effective education in the technical society of today...
Kirk is too well aware of the imperfect nature of man to suppose that the world's happiness is just around the corner. He can hardly be called an optimist, and he suffers from the built-in defect of all who distrust specific programs-he has none of his own to propose. But he has faith in the accumulated wisdom of the past, in the ultimate integrity of the individual, in a relationship between God and man that will give life a meaning it cannot otherwise have...
...worst chain-store property in the country." From Harley V. (for Vincent) McNamara, who had talked him into the deal, came a soothing answer: "That's what's so good about it-it can't get any worse." As National's new president. Optimist McNamara soon proved that it could get a lot better...
...Only the incurable optimist in the crowd will be looking for a Harvard victory." Whoever did was wrong. Final score Cornell 33, Harvard...