Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your Crimson the next four mornings, don't blame the delivery boy. We're taking a vacation just like the rest of you. Don't despair though; we'll be back on Monday, bright and early...
Whatever road Brazil eventually takes, it will probably be a disaster for the remaining Indians. The Amazon will be further penetrated for its wealth, resulting in the callous elimination of more tribal peoples. It is a familiar story, especially to North Americans, who had the despair of their dead Indians raised to a grand passion in last year's bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Bodard's brutal epic does even more. It gives North Americans a rerun of their own haunted past as seen through Brazil's uneasy present...
...place in history. This country isn't perfect and neither is Mr. Nixon, but his undying concern and his faithful help have led me to believe that some one finally turned on the lights. Things do look brighter. This man has filled American minds with hope, replacing the despair that lived there for so long...
Americans despair not only because they are removed from the political process, but also because they are basically alienated from their material lives, from the process of production and from industrial enterprise. Work seems like drudgery, like misery and a hardship whose central object is the sanctification of leisure. We lend no credence to our own stated goals, feel no control over our own day to day activity, sense real estrangement between ourselves and those with whom we work, and atrophy while feeling that there is something else we should be doing if only we could define...
Those of us who feel alienated from our political environment thus despair, retreat, reject, and disapprove. Those who feel at home in these surroundings do plan wars and plot their paths to corporate presidencies and material riches...