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...best rock 'n' roll singer of his era--is empathy. Springsteen doesn't know what a 40-hour workweek feels like, but he knows how a 40-hour workweek makes you feel. "If you roll out of bed in the morning," he says, "even if you're the deepest pessimist or cynic, you just took a step into the next day. When I was growing up, we didn't have very much, but I saw by my mom's example that a step into the next day was very important. Hey, some good things might happen. You may even hold...
...were very good, "people will keep on buying as long as you put stuff out there." Spiegelman likewise felt it was "relatively promising in its own weird way. As publishing itself becomes this totally marginalized activity, there's room for us marginal types in it." Chris Ware, ever the pessimist, pointed out that "the problem is that [comix] always end up in this section called 'graphic novels' which some bookstores don't even have so they end up in 'Science Fiction,' or even worse, with 'Role Playing Games.' I can't go into bookstores any more because...
...noticing the GRIZZLY BEAR CROSSING sign on his wall, near a swollen bookcase burdened with such cheery titles as Blown to Bits, Cleaning Up the Mess and Debt Shock. No question: Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, is Wall Street's ranking pessimist. As such, being right--as he has been lately--is a mixed blessing. It means things suck. So it would be unseemly to gloat. Yet Biggs could, even should, given that 16 months ago he was dismissed as, in his word, "antiquated." In November 1999, with the NASDAQ flying, he advised in a report...
...pessimist, I'm getting ready for an atavistic, pre-petroleum winter. I stand in the yard, knee deep in bright orange maple leaves, and study the grain of the firewood, lazily choosing the straight grains first, the ones without knots or ropy torques that will clutch the blade and hold it, stuck like Excalibur. Splitting wood is a crude, rustic version of diamond cutting. Read the grain right, strike it there, and the wood bifurcates (chunk!) with algebraic cleanness...
Maybe now we'll take Alan Greenspan seriously. A perpetual pessimist, the Fed chief has for the past year been nipping at inflation he sees hidden in the economy's weedlike growth. Last week, though, he got serious, boosting interest rates a convincing half a percentage point, to 6.5% on the benchmark short-term federal funds target rate, and making it clear that more increases are to come...