That didn't stop the wishful thinker ( and occasional playwright ) from inventing alternative story lines, most " a little General Hospital-ish, " but take it from Pastore, it's no fun being dead at 53-ish.
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If the wishful thinkers who have embraced the Reform Party _ and who fantasize that this half-baked organization can become a serious player in American politics _ want to crown Pat Buchanan as their standard-bearer, well, I say they are welcome to him.
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Its suppression of pro-democracy elements at Tiananmen Square occurred before communism began its collapse in Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union, and nothing the West has done since has made the outlook any rosier that China will soon join what the wishful thinkers prefer to call the community of democratic nations.
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In an editorial the paper concluded that " Despite Sunday's epithets and excesses, the parade went off relatively well ", though its reporter decried the " revisionist history . . . of wishful thinkers already trying to claim that aw, the crowd reaction to the gay marchers wasn't that bad ".
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"Ever since ` A Nation at Risk,'said Chester Finn, a fellow at the Hudson Institute research group and a former official in the Reagan Education Department official, " there's been this little band of wishful thinkers and revisionists who've denied there's been a problem and who have been enormously popular within the education profession because of that denial.
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One of the more accessible of them, " Quiddities : An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary " ( 1987 ), was praised in The New York Times by John Gross in general for " a deadpan humor that can light up even the most austere subjects " and in particular for commending the state lottery as " ` a public subsidy of intelligence,'on the grounds that ` it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers . "'
