Word: pessimists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flip a Coin. As puzzled at the end of his tour as at the beginning, Economist Crowther said "almost every piece of evidence can be interpreted either way." He illustrated this bothersome ambivalence with an imaginary debate between a Pessimist and an Optimist. Samples...
...Pessimist: A nine-year upward movement is quite without parallel in American economic history. It must be near...
...Pessimist: There are signs of a decline in consumer demand already. . . . Several industries are being pushed in the red by higher costs. . . . This sort of thing might easily start a general downward move...
...Soviet puppets capture Western Europe, "I would become a pessimist with regard to avoiding World War Ill," President Conant told the Boston Rotary Club yesterday. "We must therefore do all in our power to see that the 16 nations of the European plan preserve an economy which will keep immune from the virus of the Soviet Philosophy...
...near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses a deep and essential insight, into human nature...