Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some women, to be sure, would be unhappy no matter what their husbands' occupations and would turn in their despair to drink, to drugs, to affairs. But probably no other career makes such relentless demands on wives and families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her." Witness Eleanor McGovern, once again on the stump in South Dakota, confessing with her customary candor: "I would like...
...Nixon, 62, never sought political fame, though her husband desperately desired it. When he fell so ignominiously, he took her down too. With him, she retreated to San Clemente, and in her despair she did not even communicate with her closest friends. For a while her daughters, always anxious about her welfare, comforted her. When they were away, she sometimes tried on dresses she had saved from happier times for what she thought would be a serene retirement. Once when she ventured out the door, a photographer's plane flew low overhead. She fled back inside...
...often-heard comment on inflation is that prices have risen so high that most people could not afford to buy the houses they now own. An ominous variant surfaced at a despair-ridden conference on inflation and the construction industry that was held in Atlanta last week-one of the eleven "minisummits" leading up to the Ford Administration's economic summit Sept. 27 and 28. Cracked Lewis Cenker, president of the National Association of Home Builders: "The commercial banking system can not afford all the real estate it is about...
Robert F. Duncan died with his boots on--his family and friends say he would have had it no other way. To the last he was hopeful about the future of a world in which he had seen much to despair about. He wrote in his fiftieth reunion report: "My continuing faith is based on what I see of the younger generation. I have faith that, despite the obstacles, they will make a better world." If we who are among that generation can go about our lives with the dedication and enthusiasm that Duncan showed his optimistic outlook...
...soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed to fester, could eventually produce massive disillusionment with Europe's seemingly powerless democratic institutions. The specter of such disillusion makes many Europeans edgy. For widespread despair would no doubt encourage the demagogues of the extreme right and left, as it did in the 1930s, to try to impose their own kind of repressive solutions...