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...things are going these days, it's the optimist who thinks bread will cost $2 a loaf within five years. The pessimist says it will cost 2 rubles...
...hungry settler who said: 'We don't have enough food, what we should do is send a few planes to bomb Washington. Then the U.S. would invade and occupy us and everything would be all right because they will have to feed us.' The pessimist was the pioneer who replied: 'Maybe you're right. But the trouble is, we might...
Read quickly, Kathleen Raine might easily be put down as a gifted pessimist. But no pessimist could write this Message from Home...
Optimist met pessimist at the Law School lorum last evening as The Rt. Hon. Chuter Ede, former British Home Secretary, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, discussed and argued the problem of effective education in the technical society of today...
...book and lyrics are a travesty, the actors are talented, and courageous. In the double role of the pedant Dr. Pangloss ("thrice graduated from Heidelberg"), and the pessimist Martin, Max Adrian has the play's best, and worst, lines. Confronting his roles with a scraggly singing voice and an enormous confidence, he is the star of the show. In the more innocuous part of Candide, Robert Rounseville acts stiffly but has a powerful and accurate singing voice. Barbara Cook as Cunegonde is an appealing actress with a good voice, and stops the show with one number, "Glitter...