Word: despairing
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...happen; he would then capitalize on the prominence he hoped it would confer. For most of those who attended, however, the main point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values. The march was also a partial antidote to what may be a creeping sense of despair among African Americans. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 56% of blacks questioned did not think discrimination against them would ever diminish. Only 27% of whites felt that way. While 65% of whites thought that race relations would eventually improve, only 44% of blacks agreed...
...reform fatigue leads Western countries to despair for the U.N., a number of critics prescribe benign neglect for a creature swollen with rhetoric, unread paperwork and merely stray achievements on the ground. Many agencies are financed in large part by voluntary funds; governments could favor worthwhile functions and let the rest wither away. Parsons' verdict: "Well, let it become irrelevant if it won't reform itself. Don't let's waste too much time and the energy of clever...
...despite one near-rape scene and the subjecting of the female interest (Maria Schneider) to various sexual whims. The sex scenes are all the more shocking for their lack of emotion and their primal immediacy which also surface in the frequently sexually explicit profanity. Yet the beauty and despair of certain scenes--from the opening shot of a subway roaring above a maddened Brando to his visit to his dead wife--makes one understand how the over wound coil of primitive emotion at the core of the movie would give rise to such carnality...
...Beast: A Reckoning with Depression (Putnam; 286 pages; $23.95), Tracy Thompson, a reporter for the Washington Post, provides a harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier...
...other issues such as racism, sexism and nuclear waste disposal. Yet she handles all of the issues so deftly and with such balance that, despite the darkness and horror that fill the journey, one continues to follow Chicago's voice on the tiny headset through it, from the despair-filled beginning to the beautiful and hopeful ending...