Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times, the outrage turns to despair. There is "an almost universal feeling of dismay," says a recently departed Administration official who has returned to the business community. At a Chicago banquet 2½ weeks ago for top executives of companies listed in the FORTUNE 500, the talk about Watergate was reminiscent of an S.D.S. meeting; words like "fascist" and "arrogance of power" were used to describe the atmosphere in the Administration...
...then, turning upon it enraged, with instincts born out of the furtive life of the underground mind, he pounces on the most visceral and alarming rhythms of the age. He embodies our most hysterical fantasies and fears, and gives expression to the outer limits of our paranoia and despair...
...dilemmas of Dick Van Dyke, television gave us a living-room war, assassinations and demonstrations. There was a flood of information without experience, eulogies that briefly inspired, shocks that permanently numbed. A lot of idealism was distilled down to cynicism, and a lot of hope was replaced by despair...
...worse than the despair of the sixties is the indifference and self-deception with which Maynard approaches the seventies. "I had visions of good works," she writes. "Now my goal is simpler. I want to be happy. And I want comfort... I'll vote and I'll give to charity, but I won't give myself. I have a sudden desire to buy land... a kind of fall-out shelter, I guess. As some people prepare for their old age, so I prepare for my twenties. A little house, a comfortable chair, peace and quiet -- retirement sounds tempting...
...baseball ethos lovingly, savoring its madness and its magnetism, he betrays an exasperated affection for it that he may not have felt when he began. He leaves us laughing but wistful, smug but reverent, and with a musty, clinging air of ambivalence about lost American dreams. Perhaps it's despair folded over, cynicism gone hysterical, or a commercial fake, but Smitty takes us on a sympathetic journey...