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He ends up on a farm, done with the blind optimism of his mentor Pangloss.

I don’t want to sound like the perpetually optimistic Dr. Pangloss.

A few years later, he and Prince worked together on a revival of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” for which he played the pedantic Dr. Pangloss.

Pinker isn’t a Doctor Pangloss who thinks we live in the best of all possible worlds.

From LaBonge, we were charmed by a boyish Pangloss who believed passionately that the City of the Angels was the best of all possible places.