Word: pangloss
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...born nearly 10 years ago, and I remember telling him that morning that he was one lucky baby. Forget Dr. Spock or Dr. Brazelton--I took my cue from Dr. Pangloss. If this was not the best of all possible worlds, it was certainly the best time and best place to be starting out healthy and free in a land of vast possibilities. In the months and years that followed, however, there came a steady stream of books and essays warning that I had missed something ominous: our little guy had entered a soul-crushing world of anti-boy influences...
...shouldn’t just run its course.“Organic change means out goes an independent local store and in comes a chain,” she says. “The Square has lost its soul.”Another bookstore that closed in recent years, Pangloss, also shuttered its doors in a Harvard-owned space at 65 Mount Auburn Street.“They were at a point in their business that they were changing and Harvard is not always in the position where they can help people stay,” Power says.Kramer...
Simon N. Nicholas ’07 boldly and successfully conquered his three major roles. Deftly switching from narrating as Voltaire to philosophizing as Pangloss, Nicholas even became the cynical, angry Martin for a song. The casting choice in this respect is interesting, and it is noticeably incongruent to see one actor starting off as the eternally optimistic Pangloss become the bitter Pangloss ravaged by syphilis, and finally, the cynical Martin sweeping, and laughing (or crying) with hysteria. Nicholas’s success in these roles is a great credit to his acting talent...
Bush finally traded Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding—of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections...
...does Dr. Pangloss rule unchallenged? Not quite. Lindsey sights two potential clouds on the long-range horizon. The more hazy threat, in an expansion still heavily dependent on business investment, is a decline in the yield on marginal investments--the last and most speculative dollars sunk into a venture. Lindsey's scenario: "The marginal investment yields a rate of return which is below the rate demanded by the markets. All of a sudden these investments don't look so good. A few bond issues fail. The economy can be going along just fine, and all of a sudden this hits...