Word: despairing
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Ronald Reagan's election is not the biggest source of despair--rather it is the confluence of the size of his victory, the triumph of other conservatives (especially a half-dozen Bible-believing absolutist senators), and the apparently terminal case of tax fever that felled even the residents of Massachusetts. And the results of last week's elections are not, by themselves, the heralds of Armageddon. Instead, they are proofs--compass checks--of trends a few years older. They demonstrate that the car has gone over the top of the roller coaster, that the nation is shrieking and waving...
...League candidate for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Diana Coleman, ran on an explicitly socialist program; the only alternative to the "lesser evil" shell game of bourgeois politics. And the labor movement and minorities in San Francisco enthusiastically responded with over 7000 votes for Coleman. Unlike the liberal despair expressed at the "anti-Reagan" rally at Harvard, the labor movement in San Francisco rallied around Coleman's campaign slogan: "Enough! It's time for a Workers Party!" Barry Kallio
...Despair and resignation permeated the small groups of Harvard students who gathered last night to mourn the election of Ronald Reagan as the country's next president...
Though few businessmen or bankers anticipate very much more than a sluggish and lackluster year ahead, most regard even that as an improvement over what might have been. Reports George Cloos, economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: "There is not the gloom and despair that existed last spring. Some of the fear is gone...
Told by a monk in Rome that there existed a cultist trend called "Mertonism," he disowned followers with a fierce warning: "Anyone who imitates me does so at his own risk. I can promise him some fine moments of naked despair...