And while draining any 2007 optimism from a new season that already feels like the dog days of 2006, their defense treated Brett Favre to a journey through time, escorting him back to his days as the Super Bowl-winning quarterback of 1997.
Jeffrey Kroessler, a preservationist who is writing a book on the history of Queens, said "many people in Queens are fond of it" because it is a symbol of exuberant mid-1960s optimism about a space-age future, a world where people could hopscotch by helicopter among multiple helipads, like one atop what was then known as the Pan Am Building in Midtown.
There is also a glimpse of 1950s optimism, followed by cocktail parties, carols and the arrival of the artificial Christmas tree in the 1960s.
By Peter Schjeldahl "Light Prop for an Electric Stage" (1930): optimism for technical know-how.
An on-the-ground diary with narrative shape, "Only the Dead" follows Ware from his early days in Iraq during a brief period of 2003-era optimism, after the deposal of Saddam Hussein, to the increasing chaos and violence over the years that followed, the journalist staying in the country nearly continuously for seven years.
In the previous survey, conducted after presidential elections last year, optimism was at a record high.
After La Plata's 1880s optimism wore off, construction hit a slump.
Today, optimism is replaced by desperation, a promise of freedom overshadowed by death.
"Today, optimism is well placed.
Engineering obstacles also dimmed the early optimism.
Over the past several months, optimism has settled over Mr. Davies.
