Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relations, many feel, is to do well. "Success is the best revenge," says Richard Clarke, owner of a large black employment agency in New York City. But as middle-class blacks have prospered, a gap has opened between them and the black underclass that remains mired in poverty and despair (see box page 26). The gap serves as a reminder of how far some have come and how many others still have to make the journey...
Americans should not be "prostrated with despair but exhilarated by the prospects of Watergate," Rep. John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.) told alumni at a "Law, Politics and the State of the Union" symposium in Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday...
...ended, and the prospect was for still more of the sectarian violence that has dominated Ulster for the last five years. Said Faulkner as he gave up his office: "It is the saddest day of my life and for the country I love. Today I fear we are the despair of our friends and the mockery of our enemies...
...allotted span. The best description the doctors could find for it was "smoldering leukemia," and between periods of hospitalization he had remissions during which he felt fine, wrote his columns and sometimes even played tennis. But he went through an ordeal of uncertainty, savagely ranging between hope and despair. Out of that ordeal he wrote his memorable book, Stay of Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly day-by-day diary of the progress and recession of a deadly disease, partly reflections and recollections of the good life he had had and was leaving. Inspired by it, people...
...there is one area in which admiration for Adams' work is universal: his command of tonal range on his prints. "The negative is the score," he says, "the print is the performance." Ad ams can do things with a print that are the despair of professional developers: his ability to bring out every nuance of tone within a shadow, gray overlapping black, so that each detail of form is both implicit and simultaneously present, is astounding. The difference of quality be tween an Adams print and one made by a studio from an Adams negative is just as evident...