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...levels the groping attempts to create a new system-a system that will be less wasteful of resources, that will profit by the advantages of modern large-scale organization, and that will give a wider range of Americans easy access to the benefits of our society." Optimist that he is, Gardner hardly imagines that Utopia will spring forth full-blown once such a machinery is created. He believes, rather, that a new series of "great opportunities" for Americans will always come along-brilliantly disguised, of course, as insoluble problems...
Nonetheless, an optimist could discern some signs of headway. Marcos noted cryptically that he had heard of a number of "initiatives for peace." U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman took off to brief leaders in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Italy, France, West Germany and Britain on the conference-and there was speculation that he would try to persuade one of the governments along the way, perhaps Djakarta...
Ready & Willing. Despite the political upheaval in Saigon, Thai is confident about his country's future. Quoting a French maxim, he observes: "The optimist says that the onion derives from the tulip, and the pessimist says that the tulip derives from the onion. It seems that in the case of Viet Nam the pessimist has often come close to being right, but has always been proved wrong in the end. The optimist, by contrast, has never proved himself right-but has yet to be proved wrong...
...commendation for the lead article "Not Great, But Good" [Oct. 8], which refutes the impression cast by a lot of Great Society legislation that the U.S. is decaying. Nobody knows better than TIME that as Ben Wattenberg points out, "In American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist...
...polluted waters, or question the need to attack them vigorously. No amount of legislation will root out racial prejudice or inspire the excellence that is dismayingly absent from many aspects of American life. Nonetheless, as Author Wattenberg points out, "in American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist." At least, this side of the Great Society, Americans do not have to be ashamed to count their blessings...