Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time he views this as a self-deception and a tragedy. After all, the word balloon is not a balloon, and our confusion of the two is the cause of what he refers to variously (these essays were written at different times) as alienation or existential despair...
...biggies have waived the usual rules: no time limit, no penalties, no substitutions. As Jonathan skates his way toward the goal, the weight of all humankind presses heavily on his ball bearings, and it seems he will give in. Jewison has no patience with despair, however, and the movie concludes with a strong dose of spiritual uplift. Jonathan defies the corpo ration and shakes society to its roots. Maybe this means they'll have to bring back war and famine...
...overreaching rhetoric may be as ready as the experts to settle on the step-by-step changes that draw on both liberal and conservative perceptions. These changes promise not to cure but to help. They constitute a pragmatic program that Americans should support, not merely because of their despair over the present situation but because making justice faster and firmer will also make it fairer...
...speeches droned endlessly on, the white-haired scientist turned in despair to a fellow dinner guest and sighed: "I have just got a new theory of eternity." Albert Einstein's ennui at a function of the National Academy of Sciences was hardly unusual. Though the prestigious organization likes to consider itself the supreme court of American science, it has all too often resembled other self-perpetuating honor societies, like baseball's Hall of Fame or Hollywood's Oscar judges...
Today Gnosticism survives as a living religion only among the Mandaean marsh dwellers of Iraq. But Robinson believes that the Gnostic world view has had a kind of underground existence throughout Western civilization, surfacing in such classics of existential despair as Albert Camus' The Stranger as well as among today's alienated youths. Says Robinson: "The Gnostics were colossal dropouts who opted for an otherworldly escape...