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...iconoclastic notes to himself for use in future essays. Stuffed away and forgotten, they were found shortly before his death early this year and assembled as his final book. Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook (293 pp.; Knopf; $3.95) is a last lusty Bronx cheer at the muscular pessimist of Baltimore. Some samples...
...outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, Waiting for Godot can be most variously interpreted-somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant. Under Godot's metaphysical counterpane, believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play has not a casual but a thematic plotlessness...
After the game, a pessimist refused to acknowledge the excellent Harvard showing. "You should have seen them against Cornell; then you wouldn't have been so happy...
Next would come Cabinetmaking, and the question was whether in naming one man or rebuffing another, Segni could hold his pledges together long enough to form a government. "By temperament I am a pessimist," said frail old Premier Designate Segni. "In this way I avoid disappointment when things go wrong...
...expensive to do so. This is expected to act as a slight restraint on expansion plans, thus keep U.S. industry from spreading itself too thin. The First National City Bank took a look at the two industries that have paced the boom, and warned: "One need not be a pessimist to see a decline ahead in automobile and steel output." At current production rates, said National City, automakers are turning out cars at a yearly rate of 9,000,000 units, almost 2,500,000 more than the most bullish estimate of 1955's production. As for steel...