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Richard remains a determined optimist. This week he plans to revisit Rhodesia and South Africa. Said he at a Pretoria press conference: "I am convinced that in the end we will get a settlement to this problem." Other British diplomats are not so buoyant. Complained one last week: "It's a fearful slog. Both sides, black and white, are tossing tantrums and refusing to talk common sense. If Ivor gets anywhere with these adamant chaps he should have a medal...
...absolutely certain that it can. I am an optimist today. I always have been. I think our political system is flexible enough to change these trends. So in the next two elections I feel there will be a different philosophy expressed than in the past ten or twelve years...
...says he won't predict, or even hope, that the original court decision will be overturned. He said he was stunned when he was convicted two years ago, and is afraid to guess about the court's thinking now. "I have become a pessimist, since I was such an optimist during the trail," Edelin said. "I really didn't believe I could lost the case then...
August 15, 1976: the once healthy franchise of the Boston Minutemen had lapsed into a coma. It was viable in name alone, and only an optimist with a fortune could hope to revive the patient...
That quintessential 19th century optimist W.E. Henley-who can ever forget or forgive him?-wrote the unflappable lines that still seem to embroider a motto on his age: "I am the master of my fate;/ I am the captain of my soul." The world, it appeared in those innocent times, belonged to the romantic individualist with a whim of iron. Even pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche celebrated the indomitable will. Not to mention Horatio Alger...