Word: pessimistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public occasions, including Communist Party Congresses, Nikita Khrushchev exudes confidences, pretends to see the imminent "downfall of capitalism and the establishment of Communism." But a hard-eyed realist in the Communist camp must recognize what many a Western pessimist does not: the cold war is by no means going all Russia's way. Area by area, the real view from Moscow shapes up something like this...
...three of them visit the famed psychiatrist, Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly (Hercules, believe it or not) anl he prescribes different remedies, each more or less successful, each particularly appropriate. By the end of the play the classical trappings have been discarded, and Eliot emerges as the same old Christian pessimist we always knew...
Last week, through the upcountry, the big city of New Orleans and the Cajun lowlands, the avalanche fell-a record 900,000 votes in all-but not on the jambalaya pot. Licked worse than even the strongest pessimist might have guessed was 47-year-old "Chep" Morrison himself, longtime reform politician, perennial foe of the Long regime, and, all in all, a relatively moderate Southerner. The winner: James H. Davis, 59, colorless, onetime Governor (1944-48) renowned for his guitar-strumming and hillbilly compositions (You Are My Sunshine), outspoken foe of integration, and without doubt the next Governor of Louisiana...