Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constantly and easily we are seduced by violence, not only as a method but as to an end in itself. With very little politics, very little ethics, very little direction and only a minimum of moral sense, if any at all, it might lead one to conclude in despair: the movement is debased beyond recognition. I can't be part...
...disgust with the very system blacks are trying to use to their advantage ("It takes your soul and it gives you a color TV set in return"). Educated black men and women may indeed never have had a better opportunity to get a piece of the action, but poverty, despair, hopelessness still haunt the nation's ghettos; all too many black Americans remain preoccupied with sheer survival. In fact, the gap between white and black family income overall continues to widen, despite remarkable gains by educated urban black families in the North and West. "How can people be uptight...
...feel like I should be breaking windows," I. F. Stone admitted to a Harvard audience yesterday. "What I really ought to do is incite a riot." Stone's despair, born of reading the morning newspaper, led him to a discussion of a variety of political issues...
Toward the end of the film, in despair at the failure of his diary-experiment, David points an enraged, accusing finger at the camera: "You don't show me the right things. You don't show me anything that means anything. " He had been looking for meaning in experience, and instead is forced to understand that significance is assigned, not discovered. Meaning isn't inherent, it's an attribution; form is what provides the sense of an observation...
...RIOT NIGHTS, however, more than compensates for its laxity of prose and technical inconsistencies, with an epigrammatic finesse that captures better than any Harvard novel to date, college schizophrenia and numinous existentias despair. Although Innis too often is guilty of facile, canned prose, he comes up with some beauties. For example, Randy on the verge of graduation, muses that "Neil Young's tidy answers are not enough...