Word: optimists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heavy Odds. Macaulay can be as hard to take in retrospect as he often must have been in person. Born in 1800, he seems to exemplify almost everything about the 19th century that the 20th century cannot forgive. He was an optimist who summed up history thus: "The great progress goes on." Against heavy odds, John Clive, a professor of history and literature at Harvard, manages to build a respectable case for a respectable Macaulay. Ten years ago Clive's Macaulay might have earned equally admiring reviews in the back pages of literary periodicals, then sunk like a Victorian...
Buffalo Braves Coach Jack Ramsay is an incorrigible optimist. At the beginning of this season, following three years of famine for his expansion team, Ramsay had hopes for a veritable feast: nothing less than 42 victories, double last year's total. With Rookie Ernie DiGregorio the best-known player on the team, Ramsay's goal seemed laughable...
...optimist might predict that in less than five years both admissions to the College and the occupancy quotas of every House will be "equalized." But, in the meantime, the wise man will not be holding his breath...
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...
Naturalism is the right style for McCleery: it lets him explore real people in recognizably human situations making it through their crises with little psychic hurt. An optimist himself, McCleery consciously intends to stress the comic and the positive in plays. The vividness intrinsic to naturalism allows him to make his points clearly, showing his audience the dynamic process through which his characters resolve their conflicts so favorably...