Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are also wearying. The movie Conroy is unafflicted by the moments of despair that overtook the real one and made his efforts heroic. Finally fired for continually bucking the system, Conroy in his book had the grace to wonder if his intervention had not done more harm than good. Perhaps it was cruel to elevate hopes to a level impossible of realization...
Compounding the alarm?and further weakening faith in governments ?is the uncomfortable feeling that no one quite knows what to do about inflation. The experts themselves are not immune from this despair. In the U.S., John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council, asserts: "I don't believe it is clear that mankind today knows how to control inflation...
That Galley now walks the streets of Columbus wearing the uniform that he has disgraced fills me with despair and disgust...
What Heilbroner may express most clearly in this essay is the present fatigued mood of a generation of intellectuals who began, like good Americans, by believing that they had nearly all the answers and have come to despair that they have any. In the absence of proof, a reader can only hope that Heilbroner and his fellow sentries, as he calls them, are now as wrong about sighting the end-of-practically-everything as they were in their youth when, with Marxist or "managerial" revolutions in their heads, a lot of them thought they saw quite another kind Of future...
...despair of N.C. State's 1972-3 exile, when Norm Sloan's roundballers racked up a 27-0 campaign (but could not play in port-season tournaments because of recruiting violations), turned into exultation when a three-day weekend coup d'etat went without a hitch in Greensboro...