Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman Women is openly autobiographical--doctors once gave Burgess only months to live, his wife unexpectedly died instead--and perhaps that explains the grim tone. But the novel never surmounts a cloying obsession with slow death and supernatural reincarnation; in the end, Burgess offers only black humor and muddled despair as Death wins out. The result is a novel long on bizarre plot twists and short on ideas: pointless death makes for a pointless novel...
Even if Gilmore lives, all of American society must accept the blame for the life he has led. Gary Gilmore's death-wish was bred by the despair of a society that has allowed him little chance to life within the law. Now 35 years old, Gilmore has spent 18 of the last 21 years in prison having been first incarcerated at the age of 14. In a society where convicts receive little rehabilitative training, and ex-convicts receive no consideration from potential employers, Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime to its seemingly inevitable...
...given weekday night at the reserve desk of Lamont Library assembles an impatient crowd of hungry Gov 30 students. They wait and quietly fight growing despair as the last copy of James Q. Wilson's "Political Organizations" disappears from the shelf...
Unfortunately, Seaver is given to almost tearful assertions of the author's worth. During their collaboration, in a moment of Beckett's despair for the fate of his efforts, Seaver blurts, "But Mr. Beckett. You're crazy! Don't you realize who you are? Why...you're a thousand times more important than...Albert Camus, for example!" We can chalk this up to youthful enthusiasm, but upon mature consideration Seaver begins his quasihagiographical introduction: "Samuel Beckett is, in my opinion, one of the two or three most important writers of the twentieth century." Isn't there enough of this...
...among blacks (12.7%) is dreadful. It slows overall black progress and contributes to the decay of the cities. As long as modern society encourages so many women to want to work, more jobs must be created for them as well as for teen-agers -the alternative being a nagging despair and disillusionment with the capitalist system. These are social problems not solvable by overall economic policy, but requiring specific, targeted programs...