Word: pessimistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russell has never been backward about saying what he himself thinks. "I think the universe is all spots and jumps, without unity, without continuity, without coherence or orderliness or any of the other properties that governesses love." But he is no fatalistic pessimist. "It may be that God made the world, but that is no reason why we should not make it over." He pays his irreverent respects by the way to many an established notion, sums up psychoanalysis in a neat paragraph. "I do not think that psychoanalysts have reflected very deeply upon the distinction between phantasy and reality...
Clumsy but honest Theodore Dreiser, although he would not like to write himself down "as a total pessimist," and thinks Life "taken all in all, a fairly good show," has "not the faintest notion of what it is all about...
...work together all right. You preach thrift and economy and when your readers have saved all they can, send them to me. I'll take them- and how. Presidents have always been my long suit (not underwear), especially when they are senators. . . . You know the difference between the pessimist and the optimist-the pessimist thinks all girls are bad and the optimist hopes and prays they are. . . . Business is getting better and better and although it may look bad around these parts they say business in Chicago is still 'holding up'." Following the style of "Tom Thumb...
...pessimist and expect a perfectly natural improvement in business before the end of the year, but I feel like the alderman, who, confusing gondolas with rabbits, thought two gondolas were sufficient for the pond in the park...
Author Jacques Deval, 37, Parisian, is in Hollywood superintending French talkies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is his third trip to the U. S. Of himself, he-says: "I am not a humorist. I am a merry pessimist." He has written several plays, of which one, Her Cardboard Lover, has been produced...