Word: pessimistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rialto Theater, which consistently showed the worst. The profits on the bad pictures enabled me to stand the losses on the good ones. Most of the critics of the industry are optimists, because they only write and speak about the demand for superior films. I am a pessimist, because I have invested money in them...
...have read with interest your April 23 report on Dr. Paul Hutchinson's evaluation of U.S. Protestantism ... It is evident that he belongs to the P.P.P. (Protestant Pessimist Party). It has become the fashion among certain clergymen and religious writers in Protestantism to decry the contribution made by the churches to which they belong . . . Intelligent Roman Catholics realize that little good is done by that kind of public self-flagellation . . . There are faults in the Catholic Church, too but why, they reason, wash the family laundry in public...
...Pessimist or optimist, nobody was talking of cutting back in a post-Korea letdown. Nothing that they saw beyond Korea had changed, and neither had their plans nor the urgency of rearmament. Phase by phase, here is how U.S. preparedness would probably look...
Practicing Pessimist...
...wartime course, he shrugs them off as "professionals of the Liberation." His friends have tried to excuse him by saying that he wrote anti-racist stories which the Nazi censor rejected, but he himself offers no defense for what he did or did not do. As a practicing pessimist, he prefers to meet such, questions, as he does most others, merely with a silent stare...