Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Briton's endearing assumption that gentlemen do not tap each other's telephones is, naturally, the despair of merchants like Mr. X, who sells all sorts of bugging gadgets to overseas clients. "I find it horrifying," he says, "that we are in the Common Market with the Germans, the French and the Italians, who know all about this equipment and don't feel too many moral qualms about using it." There are probably no more than 20 British companies, he laments, that even bother to "sweep" their board rooms for bugs that have been planted by their...
...equivalent in hippie jargon for the exalted language of the Bible. Instead it offers, among other conceits, the Lazarus legend climaxed with a pie in the face. Stephen Schwartz's score is perfectly suited to this level of imitation rock. "God save the people . . ./ Save the people from despair," one of Schwartz's lyrics moans. A good beginning would have been to spare them Godspell, which adores him far less than it does its own adorableness...
Strife. In his oratory, Gaddafi often betrays a sort of messianic despair. "The Arabs are engulfed in torpor and darkness," he told his people last year. "The Arabs have lost direction." What he might better have said is that the so-called "Arab nation"-that congeries of 24 republics, monarchies, sheikdoms and otherwise organized anomalies-is, as usual, in a state of fratricidal strife...
...Despair. Small wonder then that Gaddafi romanticizes a return to an Islamic purity of the past, or that his call brings forth such emotion from his audiences. He looks back to the 8th century, when Arab power extended from Persia to southern France, and concludes that the Western governments have used Israel to divide and subvert the Arab nation. This kind of romanticism can lead, however, to a new cycle of despair. As Arnold Hottinger, a Swiss expert on Arab affairs, has written, "Radical discontent with the political situation as it is can lead to a fixation on goals incapable...
...still almost unknown in the U.S. Octavio Paz, Mexico's most distinguished poet and essayist (TIME, Jan. 29), impresses the reader as one of the most provocative thinkers in the West. Gracefully, lucidly, he talks of topics as diverse as the rebellion of modern youth ("an explosion of despair"), the art of Marcel Duchamp, Sade's philosophy ("His model is not a volcano, although he liked volcanoes very much, but cold lava"). Paz even notes the first feminist, Penthesilea, legendary queen of the Amazons, who ruled from "a throne of vertigo and tides...