Word: pessimists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, perennial optimist, said she had made no bets or prophecies on the election, explained: "Constitutionally, I'm a pessimist...
...Years or So. It follows from Adler's definitions that we won't have world peace until we have a world state. A "short-term pessimist," Adler thinks the world state will not come into being for some 500 years. Yet Adler thinks we can work toward the objective, even though our grandchildren's grandchildren will not live to see it. He calls this "longterm optimism." It is as if somebody were trying to console a weary harvester in a 15th-Century grainfield by hinting that in the 20th Century a mechanical reaper and binder might...
...founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist...
...realism of the pessimist overlooks, too, the possibility that the American people, for all their wartime grabbing and grumbling, their nagging obsession with gasoline, meat and chewing-gum shortages, may be possessed of a deep sense of the world crisis in which they are involved, may be growing aware that their generation is shaping the history of the world. Their outward apathy may cover a realistic appraisal of the task they face, a grim realization that the better world they want is not to be built overnight in a glorious burst of crusading exaltation, but only by hard, slow, disagreeable...