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...words NEW DEAL. It was a message of hope at a time when a naturally optimistic people seemed to be slipping into despair, and with good reason. In the three years since the great stock market crash of 1929, national income had plunged by more than half, from $87.4 billion to $41.7 billion. Unemployment had soared to 4 million in 1930, 8 million in 1931, 12 million in 1932-one-quarter of the entire work force-and in stricken cities like Chicago the figure went as high as one-half. FORTUNE magazine estimated that 27.5 million Americans had no regular...
...battles between Hopkins and Ickes were typical of Roosevelt's way of exercising leadership. Having attracted swarms of bright and assertive newcomers to Washington, he encouraged them to fight for their ideas, even against each other. To the despair of those who believed in official channels and hierarchies, Roosevelt constantly called in special advisers and experts to suggest new and sometimes contradictory approaches. And he always remained ready to experiment. "Take a method and try it," he said. "If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something...
...since 1967. Says Ribhi Abu-Sinanah, dean of Hebron Polytechnic: "The Arab countries have been open to Western culture. This openness has resulted in nothing positive. We have been defeated." In general agreement, an Israeli political scientist remarks: "To some extent this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want us, they're terrified of the P.L.O., they don't like the Jordanians, so this is a way of entering a shell. It is an area that Israel can't really touch...
...terrible question of cancer patients is "Why me?" In Mars, the terminally ill Fritz Zorn cries a harrowing answer: "My parents' neuroses were responsible for producing my neurosis; my neurosis was responsible for producing my lifelong despair; my despair is responsible for my being ill with cancer; and my cancer will be the cause of my death...
...Susan has lapsed into total Forty-Niner adoration. A record that recently arrived in the mail from home entitled, "Go Forty-Niners" blasts from our stereo system constantly. Although we tolerated almost any form of music--from opera to disco--this song has driven all of us away in despair. A cross between hokey Western nasal twanging and weak rock-and-roll, this particular fight song--coined especially for Sunday's big event--boasts cloying lyrics like, "Go Forty-Niners/Take it all the way/You can win the Super Bowl/And keep the trophy in the Bay. Houston, Dallas/Cincinnati too/You beat...