Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension less frenetic than the cities, less jaded than the South, and less crazily precarious than the Far West. The Middle West could begin to figure in American literature in a big way, and the heart of our country could become the backdrop for the heart of our despair...
...daughter), lost to her out of a love for biology. With slatternly hair and frowsy bathrobe, Beatrice drags out her days on too much coffee and too many cigarettes, reading the want ads and trying to sell dance tickets on the phone. She wisecracks non-stop to waylay despair, but her sense of humor has gone sour and grates on even her daughters...
Neither inevitability nor revulsion are at the root of sputtering student activism, though; it is that our generation of students caught the crest of the late 60s without experiencing any of the conflicts with established order which came before. Met with the despair and cynicism of a generation that struggled for appallingly just causes, most of us have succumbed to the disappointments of the 70s because we never knew the hopes of that past generation. Our disappointments these last three years should not be so great, though, because it was our predecessors who built the causes in which we joined...
...point? A point at which the President who first bestirred student protest in 1965, Lyndon Johnson, would say shortly before his death, "...many Americans have begun to believe that solutions do not exist. Many Americans have just given up." Lyndon Johnson would say in 1972, "A dangerous mood of despair and defeatism has come over America." This mood has not been missed among students whose every protest, upon which so many hopes were founded, has been ignored or beaten back...
...four years, and that the generation which best knows the errors of the past four years will lose its will to challenge what is wrong in America. It is time to disturb the silence which afflicts our generation. The ultimate tragedy would be for us to submit to the despair and cynicism attributed to us and to our predecessors, and become an ineffectual generation lost to the disappointments of the past. President...