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Before the 1952 football season began, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy, a pluperfect pessimist, glumly predicted an "awful rough season" for his green team, made up mainly of sophomores. As it turned out, Notre Dame managed to make it even rougher on the opposition...
...voted for Tom Dewey in 1944. In that case, said the friend, Nixon ought to come home and try for the job. Recalls Nixon: "Voorhis looked impossible to beat. He was intelligent, experienced, came from a well-known family. Why did I take it? I'm a pessimist, but if I figure I've got a chance, I'll fight...
...usual, he has glazed the legend with elegant mockery; the notions of Freud creep in to jostle the miracles of faith. Here is a delightful story, Mann seems to say: thanks to God's mercy, an Oedipus with a happy ending. And Mann is too good a pessimist not to conceal his own derisive smile...
...Rialto Theater, which consistently showed the worst. The profits on the bad pictures enabled me to stand the losses on the good ones. Most of the critics of the industry are optimists, because they only write and speak about the demand for superior films. I am a pessimist, because I have invested money in them...
...have read with interest your April 23 report on Dr. Paul Hutchinson's evaluation of U.S. Protestantism ... It is evident that he belongs to the P.P.P. (Protestant Pessimist Party). It has become the fashion among certain clergymen and religious writers in Protestantism to decry the contribution made by the churches to which they belong . . . Intelligent Roman Catholics realize that little good is done by that kind of public self-flagellation . . . There are faults in the Catholic Church, too but why, they reason, wash the family laundry in public...