Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some other sociopathic activity. The point of this is not the trouble Jimmy will eventually cost this nation...
Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
Fire!, which ended Brandeis University's repertory season last week, scorches the stage with grief, fury, desire and despair. Framed in a set of huge bronze cubes appear the archetypal woman as mother, wife and slut and the arche typal man as son, father, husband and lover. They are not there to be joined to gether but to be rent asunder. "We must love one another or die," wrote W. H. Auden. Fire! proclaims that love is dead, God is dead, and man is dying. The playwright is a onetime actor now living in Europe who has adopted...
...nation of the poor is often invisible to the rest of America. Unlike the destitute of other times and places, its inhabitants are not usually distinguishable by any of the traditional telltales of want: hunger-distended bellies or filthy rags, beggar's bowls or the lineaments of despair. Harlem's broad avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards?bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest...
...which sounds right for Dylan. And maybe H can be a religion. What this song's got in common with the other two is the message in the following lines: "Everybody's building ships and boat; some are building monuments; some are jotting down notes. Everybody's in despair. Every girl and boy. But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's going to jump for joy." People are despairing because what they're doing--building monuments or jotting down notes to songs like Dylan--is as useless as Dylan said it was in Visions of Johanna...