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Roosevelt and other Bayh supporters at Harvard are still positive about their candidate, however. "Maybe I'm a die-hard optimist, but Bayh will be president one day," Mike Conniff '77 said yesterday...
...travels, Salisbury seeks others signs. Over and over, he explains that he is an optimist, and his optimism colors his perceptions of the people he meets, the people he tries to find his American spirit in. Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America, is someone he admires very much. "I told Reich that I was an optimist. He was delighted. His friends are optimists, too. He said this was a time when the consciousness people of the 1960s were out doing their own thing." There are nuances here, and ironies, that Salisbury is overlooking. Not that he has stacked...
...there it all hangs out. Hunter Thompson, the man of doom, the cutting edge of the out culture of the 1960's, is an optimist on the survival of humanity...
...optimist, and I think in time there will be the perception that the country has recovered from this traumatic period and that we have an excellent opportunity of making progress, whether it is domestically, internationally or otherwise...
What does the smile of the native optimist have to do with the groan from the cross? What cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...