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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ethnocentricism implicit in American history. The great father figures of the presidency were shown to be aloof and unresponsive to their children. Parents, policemen, establishmentarians-all figures of authority-were correspondingly devalued. Moneys were diverted from welfare projects to military hardware, and in response, minorities turned to violence and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Postwar US.: The Scapegoat Is Gone | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...Looking for a spectacular Second Coming of Jesus Christ [Jan. 8] as a way of solving the world's problems is a philosophy of despair. It assumes that Jesus' way of bringing about the kingdom of God through the faithful work of his followers will not succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1973 | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" no longer evoke 19th century triumphs but this century's despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Oh, Say Can You Still See? | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...written..Why limit it to the financial hole? Isn't the rest of the paper worth saving?" These two expressions of discontent give a good indication of what was going on at The Crimson at the time. A short time before they appeared, a business manager had resigned in despair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Enters the 30s and the Depressions | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...Despair was not the exclusive product of domestic or personal stress. In Virginia's creative method were visible the pleasures and pains of creative activity almost as no other artist has demonstrated them. Her remorse was usually given articular expression, as in this 1911 letter to Vanessa...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Queen of the Highbrows | 1/10/1973 | See Source »

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