Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Cong flag passed, and I knew what the kids must have been told. Some of the older Vietnamese have been fighting one enemy or another for 30 years, and their despair must be huge. But that banner was no flag of peace...
...ARTISTS AS UBERMENSCHEN: "We artists carry no tragedy within us, even if we are in despair and do away with ourselves . . . our minds stand back to watch us suffering and thereby mitigate the pain as it were, push our troubles into the background, transform them into a spectacle over which we can joke or philosophize...
Shrugs and Overstatement. There are two dangers in confronting the present conservation crisis. One "is to overstate the damage to the environment. The other is to fall into the kind of shoulder-shrugging despair best illustrated by Writer Lillian Hellman when her neighbors sought her help in protecting the island of Martha's Vineyard from a jet airstrip. "Everywhere else has been ruined," she replied. "Why should we be different?" Boyle avoids both pitfalls. Hand-wringing fishermen often exaggerate the ruination of the Hudson by pointing to a lack of salmon. By consulting records and fishery experts, Boyle...
Kahn-Tineta has said that she is "fighting in Canada against the government's policy of termination of all indian land ownership and treaty rights, and in the United States against discouragement and despair on the part of many Indians living in cities...
...production of The Flies was, at times, like a return visit to Hugo's Ruy Blas with glorious howls and gloried-in blood. Especially unrestrained and awkward was the scene between Zeus and Aegisthus. Peter Gudjonsson's lumbering mannerisms didn't work well as he tried to express Aegisthus' despair. Similarly, the bodily confrontation between Aegisthus and his assassin Orestes had a uncomfortably melodramatic quality. I found myself among those laughing as Aegisthus' strangled body was dropped down a chute at midstage...