Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more. At one point, he brings the bar owner, the only character with roots to his "confessional." The bar owner says that he is content running a small place with a steady profit and with hearing the confessions of his regulars, but he ends his speech with a quiet despair disguised as complacency: "I'll die in the night and I hope it don't wake me up, that I just slip away, quietly." Something is drastically wrong with the whole fabric of society; the bar's one contact with the outside world all evening comes when the doctor goes...
...cynical that we have fallen for Nixon's scheme? Are we so simple-minded that we are satisfied by yellow men dying instead of white and black? I cannot swallow the media's apathy theory. It is not apathy that has infected and paralyzed student protest. It is despair--a despair rooted in weariness and supported by the selfish but short-lived convenience of inaction...
When I returned from Washington after last week's depressing protest, a guy in one of my classes assured me of his deep opposition to the war, but said he questioned the efficacy of the tactics of current antiwar protests. A despair over tactics, a feeling that we aren't getting anywhere, has logically become stronger as the was has continued. Any demonstration observed alone appears in retrospect to have accomplished nearly nothing...
...Should it ever capture more than a snippet of the vast audience, broadcast lobbyists in Washington would reduce its generous funding to a trickle. Given this bland, canned state of TV, does the audience have any hope at all for fast, fast, fast relief? After 365 pages of documented despair, Brown suddenly goes upbeat, trusting the general viewer to reforest the wasteland. The result is reminiscent of the happy ending tacked to a TV melodrama. It also reflects an abiding belief in the populist tradition. "The freedom of the public," says Brown, "is the time bomb in television...
...comb, and gray rather than great expectations cloud his eyes. Literary ways of dealing with this theme naturally vary. The approach chosen by Luke Rhinehart for his first novel is to consider the middle-age heebie-jeebies as a condition of the soul, angst-laden with boredom and despair...