Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lumet lets us glimpse the man's Old World Italian family (his father and brother are cobblers) and his Greenwich Village girlfriends. He creates locker-room comedy out of Serpico's love for opera and ballet. But the crucial gap between his personal life and public service, and the despair that drove him to paranoia and defensive put-ons are only vaguely rendered, like a plainclothesman's arrest sheets...
...strongest representative of the underlying tension of blacks in a culture dominated by whites, the tension that never surfaces in many of Hughes's characters. Garr asks the question that lies dormant in all of them, a question that appears only in the worst moments of despair for a people used to despair: "What happens to the dream deferred?" In Harlem, the dream of equality explodes into the same human qualities we all have, perhaps a little more passionately. And when Garr decides that he cannot hold onto the dream, the Old Man says that we cannot...
Eugene Welljamsdorf'73, a firstyear Med student, said two weeks ago that the drop in the boards owed partly to the advent of pass/fail grading, but he added that the faculty's despair over the test scores is not valid...
...analogy" between her abduction and the police capture of two suspected S.L.A. members now charged with the murder last November of Dr. Marcus Foster, the black superintendent of schools in Oakland. Authorities expect that Patricia's kidnapers may well ultimately demand their release. Beyond that, some law-enforcement officials despair that, following the skyjacking syndrome, the S.L.A.'s sudden notoriety may already have loosed the seed of example for future senseless terrorism?even if, like kidnapers in the great majority of cases handled by the FBI, this group is caught...
...Paul Carter's formal view of a tuberculous family in New York is touched with an eerie stillness. But the exchange is certainly marked by what Stryker describes as "a natural regard for human dignity." Says Stryker: "Experts have said to me that's the face of despair. And I say, look again. You see in those faces something that transcends despair...