Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Despair over totalitarianism has inspired dissident movements within the Marxist-Leninist states. East German Party Apparatchik Rudolf
...CHILDREN PASS through their narcissistic stages and develop into adults, it is the notion of entitlement which begins to distinguish the classes. Poor children feel "narcissistic despair," while rich children feel "narcissistic entitlement," Coles says. And for someone who has often wondered how the rich and even some of the not-so-rich students at Harvard can act so often as though they own the world, the word entitlement lingers, suggesting some sort of an answer. Entitlement does not necessarily connote material possessions which "spoil" a child--a child can be spoiled and not necessarily feel that everything...
Anything wouldn't have been better than spending a weekend in Hanover, New Hamphire, though. At least this weekend, as the Dartmouths were staging their annual Winter Carnival, so you can imagine the despair of the Big Green's women swimmers as they were bused southward Saturday morning. It was even more despairing once they arrived in Boston. According to coach Susan Lutkus, "It took us as long to get from the bus station to the pool as it had from Hanover to Boston...
...when more and more people appear either beset by total despair for the future or have hope only in the supernatural, Senator Humphrey seemed to say that we, mankind, hold the hope for the future by working our hardest and never giving up the fight for a better life...
Nevertheless, low-rent water babies need not despair. A drop to popular prices is likely if California hot tubs find a mass market. That's what happened with calculators and waterbeds, both expensive innovations which now sell for a fraction of their original price. Such exotic headaches as cleaning redwood slime out of the water pump and dealing with houseguests who refuse to leave the tub may become staples of cocktail party conversation, if hot tubs can be successfully exported to colder climes than California...