Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barricaded." Sheila thinks it "a bad joke that when the people at home no longer believed in their religion, or went to church as they once did, the religious fighting was worse than ever." Later, during an argument with her brother, Sheila is blunt to the point of despair: "The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes in the future...
...debate surfaced in another form when Jimmy Carter, speaking in Manchester' N.H., voiced vast concern about the state of the American family reciting a litany of despair on divorce, delinquency, illegitimate births, venereal disease and other scourges. Dedicated conservatives fear such talk portends a huge new program that will further classify, regulate and meddle with the American family, compounding the damage that has already been done (they claim) by the hundreds of schemes enacted in recent years. The conservatives do not understand, claim Carter and Vice-Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale. What they advocate, they say, is new Government attention...
...spot on the ticket appears to be increasingly within the grasp of a talented and tainted Texan who can outdazzle either Republican-and just possibly the Democratic ticket as well. The prospect of John Connally as a candidate for Vice President evokes emotions ranging from outright delight to abject despair, for few politicians engender less neutrality than Connally, the millionaire international lawyer, former Governor and Treasury Secretary whose assets and liabilities are formidable...
...LYING, DESPAIR, JEALOUSY, ENVY, SEX, SUICIDE, DRUGS, AND THE GOOD LIFE...
Demonic Notion. The wrongheaded assumption that no possibility lies beyond the conscious will is, Farber convincingly suggests, the central and tragic mistake of the American Dream. People who actively pursue happiness practically doom themselves to lying, despair, jealousy, envy and the rest of the punishments on Farber's marquee...