Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constant Optimist," by R. J. Bry '35, is the winning play in the Student Prize Play Competition, the play-reading committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club announced last night. A silver plaque with appropriate inscription will be awarded...
...trying to study? Sure, I know what you want--human interest, that's it. Yeah, every once in a while one of you birds comes crawling around here looking for D-G stories. I know, I tried out for a competition myself. Well, you're an optimist if you think there's anything around here for your sheet. But now, please, can't you see that...
...frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...
...cartoonist's invention, necessitated by the fact that he has no "distinctive mark," based on a single instance when he had to borrow a hat that was too small for him. At Monte Carlo he usually bets on red because he has a "preference for the optimistic side of things." Among many vigorous yarns about the War, funniest (unintentionally) is "My Spy Story," in which he tells how he discovered and demolished a searchlight on the tower of a Scottish castle, considerably upsetting an innocent dinner party to do it. ". . . But the most extraordinary part in my opinion...
...troubled times of today the need of such a man is all too sorely felt. He was an optimist, filled with a tremendous and awful faith in the possibilities of man. Yet the flaws of human contrivance did not escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such...