Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like trying to perform a heart transplant--you'd better have the replacement handy. The first act, for example, could as easily be set in Yonkers as in Vienna. True, the Lowell dining hall has little potential to be converted into a ballroom, but Lowell Opera gives up in despair from the start...
...feeling guilty about it." Dartmouth men, especially jocks and fraternity men-the latter also only 30% of the student population-frankly lament the change. "What's wrong with four years without women?" a fraternity boy asks. Just lately the faculty has stirred a certain amount of rage and despair in many a Big Green breast by urging the college to abolish its 22 fraternities on grounds that they are antithetical to academic progress, unhealthy for social conduct, as well as being noisy centers of alcoholic disruption and childish antics...
...novel is full of descriptive passages of up-state winters, seasonal changes which echo emotional changes in Dubin. Long desolate winters filled with blizzards and despair are followed by short ecstatic springs filled with hope, and reunions with Fanny...
Iran is well rid of the Shah and his imperial trappings, but can it afford Khomeini [Feb. 12] with his illusions of an Islamic republic? Current relief and revelry over the dethroning of an imperial despot could easily turn into despair, frustration and bloodshed under a politically naive religious zealot...
...coups around the world−the litany of upheavals has ceaselessly eaten away at people's faith in the abilities of their governments to deal effectively with the multiplying threats to global stability. The result has been a worldwide boom in doom, and in the marketplace of despair gold stands out like a beacon of security...