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...Wells' London publisher, cannot quite forgive the man who blithely sold the masses on the future. But he makes clear that Wells was the first gulled victim of his own salesmanship, and that with his extraordinary capacity for hope went an extraordinary capacity for disenchantment. Inside the complacent optimist, a desperate pessimist was signaling wildly...
Hoppe may seem overly critical of society, yet he remains an optimist. As he looks ahead, he predicts that by 1976 the welfare state will have met most human needs through "medicare, denticare, judicare, menticare and ped-icare." And then Actor Rock Hunter will run for the presidency by advocating "the greatest welfare program of them all." From coast to coast, Hunter will thunder: "Do you realize that two-thirds of our nation goes to bed each night ill-content, underloved and alone?" Hunter's answer: "Sexicare...
Moribund Machine. Rescuers are attempting various forms of fiscal resuscitation. City Administrator George Washnis, an optimist who believes that there is nothing wrong with the city that $750 million will not cure, is looking for $30 million to $50 million in catalytic federal funds, hoping that private industry will provide the rest over the next 20 years. Some money is already trickling in. A $2,086,000 grant under the Model Cities program is expected shortly, and the city could receive about $23 million more if other major federal grants come through. Illinois' Governor Richard Ogilvie recently approved...
...Biafran, for defending his freedom against impossible odds, demonstrating that the conscience of the world is a figment of some blind optimist's imagination, and for showing the rest of us heroism and determination equal to anything since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans...
RICHARD GOODWIN has the first qualification of a reformer--he's an optimist. Not a Pangloss, huckster, or sentimentalist. But "in politics," he says, "the idea that problems can be solved is a professional assumption...