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...million in 1974 on sales of more than $2 billion. As it does following the unusual death of the head of any large U.S. business, the Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation into the company's operations. Last week a grisly clue to Black's despair surfaced: he had been at the center of an about-to-break case of international bribery that might topple the government of Honduras, hurt U.S. relations with Latin America and cause United Brands still greater losses...
...life was by no means hopeless; rather, she lived in a dimension altogether apart from hope and despair. She tells of a winter night...
Lipset, though, does not despair. Students activism, his historical account suggests, is cyclical and its form is more important than its substance. As a stoic believer in the capacity of the Harvard faculty to steer a steady course in its commitment to intellectual excellence, he suggests that "it is possible to still hope that the academic culture may regain much of the ground it has lost." As if to buck up his discouraged colleagues he closes his essay with the thought that the "price of freedom and innovation is often disturbing; the rewards are very high." Demonstrating these rewards...
...slowed down considerably. He's reached the stage in life that Erik Erikson has termed "the eighth crisis in the life cycle--the crisis of ego integrity." Its basic clash is between despair. "the feeling that time is too short," and the "acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that by necessity, permitted of no substitutions." Skinner has met this crisis head on and says that he "enjoys life. That's the main thing." His psychic strength (words he might object to) and determination to keep going are very much intact...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...