Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question remains, is it time for Hacker−or anyone−to write the country off? It may be too late to trot out again the "We are a young country" routine. But there is also a premature hysteria to the new-style despair, as if American opinion were going from polarized optimism to polarized pessimism−from the foolish complacence of thinking we were the best to the equally foolish self-contempt of accepting that we are the worst...
...Leibman is a manic delight in the key role, twitching mutely when in despair, brassily egomaniacal in victory, and forever sniffing the theatrical climate like a raunchy Shubert Alley cat. The rest of the cast play lesser roles with no less finesse, and pace-setting Director Harold Stone leaves no comic corner unturned...
Economy and Tact. As case history, Ariana's problem is not uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
...Moreno soon begins to despair of both Bello's repressive measures and the workability of revolution in general. He asks a risky, rhetorical question of a foreign journalist: "Is it our fate to jump from the Wall Street pot into the Communist fire?", and he winds up forced to beg for refuge in a neutral embassy...
Representative H. James Shea (D,-Newton), who pioneered the landmark bill in the State Legislature challenging the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, took his own life early Saturday morning because of his reported overwork and despair with the continuing conflict in Indochina...