Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slowed down considerably. He's reached the stage in life that Erik Erikson has termed "the eighth crisis in the life cycle--the crisis of ego integrity." Its basic clash is between despair. "the feeling that time is too short," and the "acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that by necessity, permitted of no substitutions." Skinner has met this crisis head on and says that he "enjoys life. That's the main thing." His psychic strength (words he might object to) and determination to keep going are very much intact...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...
...interaction with his cronies is cut out from under him," says Psychiatrist Stephen Landau of the University of Michigan. Having studied the increasing numbers of unemployed who are being treated at the university's emergency psychiatric clinic, Landau says that they frequently show signs of apathy, lethargy, despair and even suicidal depression. The mere threat of losing a job, he reports, can lead to "anticipatory symptoms," including heavy drinking. The child clinic is also getting "a lot of cases where a father is laid off and the adolescents explode with the tensions created in the home." Landau cites studies...
...writing. And they requested that he and 13 others, including radical lawyer William Kunstler and Black Panther Party leader Bobby Scale, form an observers' committee through which the inmates might negotiate with the state. Four years later the Grand Jury has finished its work, and Wicker anger and despair have culminated in A Time To Die, his personal chronicle of the Attica weekend September 9 through...
...movies are a dark and mysterious memory. They are in every little town and in every eye both the hope and the despair. And they are the chronicle by which we live. Not television. Not books either because books are really much more commercial in a sense. Films cannot be commercial. There's too much effort by too many people involved that have to get along. So if a film comes out and it's good, you know those people had to share...