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Republic's Charlie White, who calls himself "not a professional optimist," doubts that even the new round of ex pansion will meet the nation's needs. White expects steel consumption to reach 1,450 pounds per capita...
Always the cheery optimist, Faure predicted that the whole Moroccan mess would be cleared up by Sept...
...woman with degrees from renowned universities heard and Extension broadcast at her home in Harwich, Mass. She enrolled, and drives over 100 miles once a week to take the courses, staying overnight in a local hotel, and driving back the next day. "It's not hard to be an optimist when someone does that," says Phelps.Extension students of all ages, say instructors, show more interest at lectures than regular college students and usually ask more questions...
Unchanging as always, however, is that Word of Cheer passed from one friend to the other before the grip of schedule and test tightens again. Although the snow may have at first frightened the Spring Term optimist, awakened like the Freshman who has overslept an exam, he is now reassured and ready to pass along advice. The new term does, in fact, promise more than the resulting slush and returned exams. If all goes well, there will be as many disarmament plans as there are new atomic weapons, and Marlon Brando will not sell his motorcycle. In all events...
...doubletalk. Sample: "Speaking communications-wise, you believe that in order to have pride and the creative restlessness, your social responsibility as management is to see that every opportunity is used to expose people to things in which they have expressed no interest, but in which, you as an information optimist are committed to believe, they would have expressed interest if they had been exposed to them." Translation: TV can and should bring culture to the masses...