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Another, calling himself a pessimist, made the distinction between long-run and short-run hopes. "The short run can limit the likelihood of time the countries that want to get into the weapons business have, but I can't be very optimistic about where we're going in the long run," said George Rathjens, political science professor...
...life. They are brilliantly specific, but they resonate far beyond their locales. In Washington, "politics, elections, chicaneries flowed through private conversation . . . marinated in Scotch and cigarette smoke," and the boy immediately associates tobacco with wisdom and maturity. At Harvard, a fellow student tells him Schopenhauer, the ultimate pessimist, " 'knows the way life is' . . . life was painful. 'No,' I would say. 'Life is not like that at all.' I was terrified that it might...
...many Democrats have been ill at ease with flag waving and the military trappings of national pride. Moreover, while Mondale must appeal to public worries about the monstrous deficit and the Reagan Administration's foreign policy stumbling, he cannot afford to seem a grim, party-pooping pessimist...
...Funseth has also been ill but playing through his worries on the senior tour. In 17 years on the regular circuit, this charming pessimist won just three tournaments but accumulated $646,811. Only a few play for history; the rest play for money. Last year he turned 50 and won $120,366, but Funseth's measure of a year is no longer cash. "It has been a blessing to play," he says...
...scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope for "cruel" capitalism, she predicted in 1978 a global economic crisis, saying, "I am an optimist by temperament, but a pessimist by intellect...