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...this habit of makin' the same thing sound both good and bad, like he's an optimist and a pessimist at the same time. Nasty little habit, you know, because his real thoughts tend to get buried upstairs, with all the xxxxx's and ooooo...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: I've Got A Secret (Or) Say It Ain't So, Joe | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

British Science Writer Adrian Berry is an incorrigible optimist. In The Next Ten Thousand Years he boldly disputed today's Cassandras by predicting that man would not only thrive but reach the far-off stars. Now Berry describes how earthlings might actually take that quantum leap. He advises the emigrants, literally, to jump into black holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Star Trekking | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Perhaps one of America's most distinguished novelists--her novelThe Optimist's Daughter received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for fiction--Welty still lives in Jackson, close to the characters she has immortalized in her fiction...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Jordan, Six Others Get Honorary Degrees | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...glad he's an optimist," Wise said, but added that he is "quite bewildered" by what he thinks are the University's efforts to prolong the talks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Talks Resume, Show Little Progress | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Prinze liked to tell interviewers that the Chico character "is very close to me. He comes out an optimist, very ambitious and hardworking. He's made something of a life that could have made him bitter." But for one of the most singular escape stories in ghetto history, escape was not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUICIDES: Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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