Word: pessimistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sometime next year, those Red Line subway cars will move out for the last time, and instead of screeching wheels at 1:20 in the morning, jackhammers at 7 a.m will awaken Eliot House residents. And in a few years -- three to the optimist, five or more to the pessimist -- the scenery should be a little better, when the John F. Kennedy Library graces the Charles River's banks...
...also been told that 140 uniformed policemen would be inside and outside the Garden. Some would have dogs. More cops, in plain-clothes, would be inside the Garden, mingling. Doug, pessimist to the end, had been telling me for three weeks to expect trouble. I had weighed myself the night before and I hadn't cracked 120 pounds. Now I was scared...
GRAMMAR. "I am a linguistic pessimist. Unguided, our language will degenerate into more and more debilitating imprecision. I hold that for every instance of evolution toward precision there are three cases of devolution into sloppiness . . . Grammar and syntax can teach one how to make words behave, not just correctly, but interestingly, tellingly, gracefully, efficiently, variously." SEX. "The community has a stake in one's interpersonal relations, because it is a fabric woven of such relations. The adolescent must not be allowed to argue that he can do what he wants to with his own body. His body...
...cover. Then full of antiwar and pro-black views, he aimed for a college teaching job "making people socially aware, making them think, making them alive." Weiss still has a beard, but has given up journalism and is not active in politics. He is now a kind of rational pessimist: "Three years ago I might have said that 250,000 people marching must be able to stop the war, that someone must hear them and pay attention. Now, anyone can look out the window and see that 250,000 people marching does not stop anything. I don't think...
...optimism which can be felt if not communicated. "Man can and should be a determiner of life rather than a victim," the program notes blazon. Thus, in the Old West Church in Boston, in the midst of some harrowing Urban Renewal skyscrapers, a theatrical group has thrown off the pessimist syndrome which Daniel Moynihan recently tabbed "mediocre." Unfortunately, at this stage in its development, the HTC lacks the artistic expertise to complement its inspiration...