Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times in all. This is Ted Kennedy's main theme, tonight and in the long months ahead. Scoffing at Carter's suggestion that the Government's powers to solve problems are limited, Kennedy sounds a more ebullient tone: "I reject those views completely. They are counsels of defeat and despair, excuses for leadership that has failed to do its job." He echoes, deliberately and inevitably, the older brothers who were assassinated. "We can light those beacon fires again," he promises. "From the hilltops of America, we can send another call to arms, a call for more effective action...
Some day PBS's home-grown dramatic programs are going to be the equal of its British imports-but when? After watching public television's adaptation of three John Cheever stories, one is tempted to despair. Here, it seems, PBS had a sure shot. The scripts are by outstanding playwrights: Wendy Wasserstein (Uncommon Women and Others), A.R. Gurney...
Theroux has manufactured a masochistic journey. Instead of taking side trips in to the bush, he feels obliged to continue on the trains, treating us to flies, rats, humidity, diarrhea and other vacation treats. He is constantly near exhaustion and despair. Complaints color all his comments; he criticizes the books he reads; everyone bores him. Each new town is another burden and descriptions become indistinguishable--arriving hot and dirty at a collection of huts, he walks the streets, settles into a hotel, and disparages the food. Fun includes testing fellow passengers: "How many miles are there between stops?" Disgust overpowers...
...self-delusion to see the Palestinians as unreasonable terrorists and dismiss the issue. Conditions of hopelessness and despair encourage violent response, and the solution lies not in turning a cold shoulder but in soothing Palestinian ills. If they are to be made more reasonable and less violent, it must be by talking with them instead of closing our ears to what they are saying...
...objections that will provide alibis after the event. The few prepared to grapple with circumstances are usually undisturbed in the eye of a hurricane. All around them there is commotion; they themselves operate in solitude i a great stillness that yields, as the resolution nears to exhaustion, exhilaration or despair...