Word: optimistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three fundamental modern attitudes toward sin, writes Father Ivo Cisar, are the pessimist's "I cannot avoid sin because it is inevitable," the optimist's "I cannot sin because sin is a myth," and the expert's "I can sin because sin is only weakness." The Christian's attitude: "I can avoid...
...only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind; yet every page is also immensely readable...
...most of his 40 years have been spent walking the streets of the world, convinced that every man is his brother. "I guess that when I sing," he says, as if formulating his credo, "I am trying to reinforce some of the positive views I feel. As an incorrigible optimist, I am trying to confirm faith in mankind--and it's hard sometimes, reading what I do in the newspapers...
Deeming himself "an optimist, a realist, and in a sense a moralist," Pauling said, "We must not think war is going to take place. World leaders know it's impossible. It is ... incompatible with everything that is human." He continued, "I am happy that the world is forced to become a world of law and order rather than anarchy, a world of morality rather than national immorality...For the first time in history it is possible for national diplomats to be moral men, because self-interest and morality now coincide...
...General Motors' Harlow Curtice waited in the wings of Flint's Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're Wonderful, You, and colored balloons floated above the linen-covered tables. Then up stepped Curtice, the very model of a modern American optimist, with some cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars (v. an estimated 4,300,000 in '58), which in turn will "start a chain reaction throughout the whole economy. I should...