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...Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, who was one of Fairbank's graduate students after the war says, "Everyone would accept the view that we have a tendency to be culture-bound, but not everyone would stress it as much." And Thomson calls Fairbank an "historical pessimist" who "does not believe in the perfectibility of people or their institutions...
...doctor says he won't predict, or even hope, that the original court decision will be overturned. He said he was stunned when he was convicted two years ago, and is afraid to guess about the court's thinking now. "I have become a pessimist, since I was such an optimist during the trail," Edelin said. "I really didn't believe I could lost the case then...
Celine, his biographer asserts, was an inveterate pessimist who conceived of truth as "a willingness to confront the worst without flinching." Although the novelist tirelessly seeks beauty in the bodies of women and the abstract movement of dance, a vision of catastrophe always prevails. For Celine, the ultimate truth was death, and the title of his first novel aptly describes the desolate trend of his written as a whole; it is A Journey to the End of the Night...
Goetz is something of a pessimist: "The aspirations and ideals still exist in America, but we don't have anywhere to go." He thinks the poor and undereducated are trapped in a society where technology is reducing rather than expanding opportunities. Even so, he finds the U.S. "more tolerant of ideas than we used to be. We don't have a heavy religion trip laid on us any more, and we don't have the tyranny of the shopkeepers...
GOLO MANN, West German historian: Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, valiant pessimist and warm philanthropist, was good for his own age. In our time, vacillating between two very different types, Franklin Roosevelt and Konrad Adenauer, I choose the former because his achievements had greater significance for world history. His demagoguery was tempered by humanity; he could not hate. He was fearless and had humor, two virtues that Bismarck, too, possessed; he radiated hope and meant well by people, which Bismarck...