Word: pessimistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only once, while dressed as Marc Antony at a Munich carnival, but he had read that master pessimist well...
With $209,517 already in the bank, Moccasin can wrap up the two-year-old filly championship with a victory in the $75,000 Gardenia Stakes at New Jersey's Garden State Park this week. But Trainer Trotsek is a persistent pessimist. "This game is made up of 'shoulda,' 'coulda' and 'woulda,'" he says glumly. "Who knows? A better filly might come along." Sure, Harry-next year. Owners Hancock and Perry are watching the progress of a little bay yearling whose parents' names are Nantallah and Rough Shod...
After nine years at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., Coach Jack Mollenkopf has every right to be a pessimist. Purdue got its nickname ("the Boilermakers") from opponents who meant it as a term of derision. It copied its school colors from Princeton's. It has been playing in the Big Ten ever since the ten were still seven, but in all those 70 years it has never once been to the Rose Bowl, and the last time it won an undisputed conference championship was in 1929. For that matter, Purdue has rarely even been the best team...
...season long, while Notre Dame's Fighting Irish piled up victory after vic tory, Coach Ara Parseghian played the persistent pessimist. "It is impossible to go through a season undefeated," he in sisted. "Teams are too evenly matched these days." Now the only thing that stood be tween Notre Dame and its first perfect season in 15 years was a so-so Southern California squad that had lost three out of nine games. True, U.S.C. had some thing worth fighting for- a possible Rose Bowl bid- but the Irish had some thing worth more: the national cham pionship. "This...
...done a superb job, gives life to her whole cast of characters, and appraises their actions with a strong sense of history. Even in her sober telling, the Calas case sounds like a cri de coeur. Popular history has too often dismissed Voltaire as an acerbic and with drawn pessimist. But in l'affaire Calas, he was supremely heroic in a dark and dangerous time, and Mrs. Nixon sees to it that his memory is well served...