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...person who holds the answer is Conrad Hilton-and he is bored by the subject. "You see," says Olive Wakeman, "Mr. Hilton won't face things that aren't nice." An eternal optimist, Hilton considers everything about himself and his way of life indestructible and unchanging-unless he changes it. Resting up one fine afternoon recently before a globe-girdling trip, he sat on the terrace of his enchanted house in Bel Air, a fistful of peanuts in his hand. Loudly he whistled again and again for a half-domesticated bluejay named Chairman of the Board. The bird...
During his Yale years, Shriver distinguished himself by becoming editor of the Yale Daily News and defining himself as "Christian, Aristotelian, optimist and American." He lived in Germany during a couple of summers while he was a Yalie, and came home with a deep fear of war: "I remember in Germany and France going to church on Sunday and noticing that there were no men in church between the ages of 30 and 50. They were all dead-killed in other wars." Shaken, he returned to his senior year in law school, helped start Yale's America First chapter...
When Gold tries to move from the fringes of society, however, to the mainstream of successful American life, his rush of eloquence falters. The Optimist, a novel which plumbed the past of a rising young politician, was a muddled nearfailure. Salt is a dreary near-disaster which recounts the triangular love trials of three well-heeled squares in Manhattan. Apparently, Gold is trying to say that up-and-coming Americans, tormented by a sense of futility and lack of purpose, try to make love make up for everything else. In the process, they poke and prod and worry it almost...
Agnieszka's encouragement fails to help anyone. Her father is inconsolable, and her predictions of a better world to come infuriate the lover, who wants to be left to his memories of concentration camp life. Such an environment would tell on any optimist, and toward the close we find our heroine suggesting suicide to her alcoholic brother, a hint he does not take. With the end comes no resolution of problems, but only the prospect of a continued day-by-day existence in the future...
Died. Carl Florman, 76, Sweden's pioneer of commercial aviation, founder and longtime (1924-49) president of Swedish Air Lines, a spirited optimist who in 1937 talked the Russians into granting his line the first regularly scheduled route from the West to Moscow, saw his company become the cornerstone in 1946 of the $137 million Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stockholm...