Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...error was in not deciding which of these McGoverns should run for president. But in between his passages from Yeats and Isainh, it was of the "loyal opposition" that McGovern spoke. "So I ask all of you tonight to stand with your convictions. I ask you not to despair of the political process of this country. because that process has yielded too much valuable improvement in these past two years...
...rasa. He is known to whisper FORTRAN into her phones at lunch hour. She does not go for wonks, so he wears a beret to look artsy. But despite her electric personality, he can't turn her on. His case is fatal; he kept falling on the ice in despair and abandon...
...relentlessly analytical of other people and utterly blind to himself. This inhibits the playgoer's compassion. Maitland's experiences are a distillation of pain; Butley's, merely a concentrated display of panic. Nonetheless, there is considerable pathos in Butley, for his manic verbal foolery is the despair of a man who cannot afford the respite of silence...
...Carter (Adam Roarke) is a pompous young hack who makes motorcycle movies and discusses the auteur theory. His producer B.Z. (Anthony Perkins) tries both to meddle with and mend their broken marriage. Maria has already had one child-Kate, herself disturbed-and aborted a second. In her sickness and despair, she clings to Carter, who humiliates her with the kind of bitter brutality she usually heaps on herself...
...reasons that have rather more to do with coincidence than Zeitgeist, there is currently a theatrical flurry of interest in the rugged life of Billie Holiday, the supreme jazz singer who died of the cumulative effects of dope and despair in 1959. Brooklyn's Chelsea Theater last week presented a jazz musical called Lady Day that uses Holiday (sung by Cecelia Norfleet) as a symbol of the ravages that racial repression can work. "Seething with anger, this Lady Day misses all that was funny and spunky in the real woman," said TIME'S Drama Critic T.E. Kalem...