Word: pangloss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a resolution is important as a sign of the times. Historians say it is only natural that an era of international skepticism should follow one when the universal brotherhood of man was so loudly proclaimed. Even so, liberal minded people cannot console themselves with the philosophy of Doctor Pangloss that everything must happen as it does and that all is for the best...
...shafts blithely over the whole universe. There is, of course, not much more than a suggestion of the famed original Candide. In fact, the foreword has Candide objecting strenuously to his reincarnation as the son of a pork-packer, Cunegonde worrying about what's going to happen, and Pangloss not quite happy at being made a bootlegger. But this blithe young gravedigger has exhumed their altered corpses with such obvious relish that one has not the heart to quibble with what...
...expanse. Gazing spellbound down the long aisles of light we seem to see invitations to the Postmasters' Ball written in Milionian sonnets, advertisements made worthy of a new Golden Treasury, and Waldorf menus gotten up in heroic couplets. Then and only then can we say with Dr. Pangloss that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds...