Word: despairful
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...pollsters' jargon, readers have shifted from "self-improvement" to "self-fulfillment." To follow that trend, editors have been adding all those service features about what to eat and how to cope, which readers may like but newspapermen despair over. Another sign of the reader's "me" emphasis is a decided preference for local news. Yet, oddly enough, even though only a third of the readership follow national and international news closely, most readers seem to want it there on Page One and tend to resent front-page feature stories. Another third of the audience would read hard news...
...genius and eminence ("the supreme figure of modern broadcasting"), Halberstam also insists that the chairman coldly let highly profitable entertainment programming elbow out the news division. Murrow, who helped invent broadcast journalism and became a symbol of integrity to colleagues and the public, eventually left the network in despair. Much later, Bill Moyers told Paley that he wanted to quit CBS and return to public broadcasting. Paley asked what it would take to keep him. Moyers said a regular primetime news show, "much like Murrow had." Paley's response: "I'm sorry, Bill, I can't do it any more...
BECAUSE this Dunster House Drama Society production tends toward the light-hearted and comic event, the two most malevolent characters are evoked sympathetically. Therefore, the members' of Heartbreak House failure to show alarm or despair at the deaths of Mangan, the deceitful businessman, and Billy Dunn, the burglar and ex-pirate, is not credible...
...American director might have struggled more self-consciously with the concept of a filmed Hair, unearthing the despair and shame, the horror and uncertainties of the late sixties. But Hair is too light a vehicle for that kind of agonizing exorcism it would have been mawkish, shallow posturing. Someday an American director will film that scraggly mess. But for now, Milos Foreman keeps Hair cheerfully scruffy...
...conjure up a existence of bucketing around Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a van that doubles as home and transport. They fetch up in drafty halls before the blind, the crippled and the mad (unseen), some of whom never wanted to be cured but came to confirm their unyielding despair...