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...near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses a deep and essential insight, into human nature...
...Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, perennial optimist, said she had made no bets or prophecies on the election, explained: "Constitutionally, I'm a pessimist...
...Years or So. It follows from Adler's definitions that we won't have world peace until we have a world state. A "short-term pessimist," Adler thinks the world state will not come into being for some 500 years. Yet Adler thinks we can work toward the objective, even though our grandchildren's grandchildren will not live to see it. He calls this "longterm optimism." It is as if somebody were trying to console a weary harvester in a 15th-Century grainfield by hinting that in the 20th Century a mechanical reaper and binder might...
...founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist...