Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rabbits, we are told, have mercifully been provided with short memories because they are so constantly prey to the threat of being killed. They would go mad with fear and despair if they could remember the past. Men seldom realize it, Kurt Vonnegut suggests in his latest novel, but they have more in common with rabbits than they like to think. Except that men forget on purpose, and are a prey to one another...
...THESE PROBLEMS have not deflated the surging optimism of the people associated with the schools. Though a number hope for state or federal help in expanding present experiments into real community systems, even those who despair of such aid feel they are making invaluable contributions to education and to their communities...
...Tears, idle tears . . . tears from the depth of some divine despair." Characteristically trying to keep cheerful, Lear referred to his own numbing bouts of depression as "the morbids." His versifier's reaction to such metaphysical miseries would never win him the laureateship, but they essayed an heroic humor outside Tennyson's reach...
Many of the rebels are acting out of a general sense of despair about America-and this despair deserves a measure of respect. But other aspiring Jacobins seem to regard the shouts and gestures of revolution merely as drugs for instant, mystical satisfaction. Perhaps the most striking feature of the movement is its vagueness. It is determinedly unprogrammatic, unhistorical. Its goals are undefined, and defiantly so. New Left Spokesman Carl Oglesby charts the radical's course in a recent article: "Perhaps he has no choice and he is pure fatality; perhaps there is no fatality and he is pure...
...acting is high-styled and full of flair. John Heffernan, as the prisoner, awaits his fate with a finely sustained projection of frustration and despair, and Joseph Bova is certainly the most jovially sadistic executioner a man could lose his head over...