Word: panglossed
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...Pangloss Bookstore, from the outside, looks to be more organized and accessible to the casual bookhunter, but once again, you really must resort to bugging the storekeepers for titles. I have yet to find anything in there that I've ever been looking for, but you are welcome...
...Pangloss with facts...
Kipling, Samuel Smiles, Horatio Alger, Dr. Pangloss, J. Paul Getty, John D. Rockefeller, the Carnegies (Andrew and Dale) and countless other evangelists of true grit have all in their time promoted the same if-at-first-you-don't-succeed philosophy for nearly a century. From the evidence, there was probably never a time or place in which their lessons were more applicable or more richly rewarded than they are in the U.S. today. Heigh...
...optimistic and green that I believe Pangloss's theory that "everything happens for the best in the best of all possible worlds," and I hope that I haven't bee brainwashed to envision Harvard as "the pie in the sky," but I still wonder why the paper only included articles in which there was no expression of academic, social, or emotional fulfillment. Perhaps in inclusion of those articles is a reflection of the general tendency of the student body to criticize the school; I've been warned that it's gauche to appear too satisfied. Or maybe the articles were...
...Even Dr. Pangloss would scarcely contend that this is the best of all possible worlds in the U.S. summer of '75. Though the economy shows some signs of recovery, 8.5 million Americans looking for jobs cannot find them, including nearly half the black teen-agers in the tinderbox ghettos. Inflation, though abating, continues to gnaw at the income of those who have work. Oil prices will go up; state and local governments seem in danger of going broke. From the Middle East to Korea, the world remains a hazardous place. And yet there is in the land a sense...