Word: despairing
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...your Essay "What Ever Became of the American Center?" [Dec. 19], you lament the death of the American center. Although you despair of both Democrats and Republicans, you offer the bleak observation that "third parties hi America gravitate not only to extremes but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies...
...singular year. "Politics became fun," burbled Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales. "National fun on live TV . . . nearly as action-packed as The A-Team." Will the political handlers, consultants, producers and scriptwriters-a flourishing industry now in league with the media-turn this campaign into a litany of despair, with each candidate exaggerating America's problems in order to sell his own solutions? Pray for a triumph of calm consideration and enlightenment in the Iowa experience...
...Their evening together is a contest of wills. If one of them can impose his or her version of the past on the others, then that metaphor will control not one life but three. But at the end they are sprawled in various attitudes of exhaustion and despair, with the truth still lying somewhere in between...
...truly intent on making others disappear, he is far more likely to succeed by killing his enemies outright and announcing the deed publicly. Then at least one deals out certainty, which will probably be followed by despair. By creating "disappearances" in Argentina, the military leaders not only engendered a feeling of national absence and brooding but raised a question of logic. Gone? How can anyone be gone nowadays in our small, interconnected, excessively communicative modern world? Instead of a nation of mourners, the generals created a nation of snoopers, all pawing at the ground for bones...
Then follows the thread of despair: 'But I didn't care about rules any more. I didn't care about memories. I was sick to death of tension and tiredness and distress and distorted values and the high-pitched level and the fortitude which we had proved beyond doubt that we possessed. I had passed the flame, I had had my initiation... I was sick to death of being on the qui vive all the time...