Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to be the ingredients for some old-time demagoguery in this fall's election. The economic strain was palpable, from the Texas oil patch through the heartland cornfields to the Piedmont textile mills. Toss in the problems of Rocky Mountain mining, the timber woes of the Northwest, and despair in the Rust Belt and there was plenty of material for a latter-day rawboned, loudmouthed populist. Thus invited, none came to the party. There was a good deal of personal mudslinging, but of such limited imagination and low quality as to be totally forgettable...
...right if you wish to fester in despair over homework assignments, but not in public. Complaining about work is a lethal pollutant in the Harvard atmosphere. The heinous odor seeps in every crack and crevice of the Harvard ambience, suffocating the unwitting undergraduates who dare to take enough time away from their work to breathe...
...sisters" prophesy to Macbeth (Mark Southern), a Scottish nobleman, that he will one day become king of Scotland. At the urging of Lady Macbeth (Alicia Rubin), the hero decides to help fate along by knocking off the current sovereign, leading to the classic meditation on paranoia, guilt, death and despair. The critical decision for the contemporary director is whether to present these and other traditional themes as best she can or to innovate, to impose new contexts and outline new meanings...
...despair, liberal Harvardians. There may be hope for you if your eye is on the upper chamber. Democrat Timothy E. Wirth '61 Tuesday was promoted from the House to the Senate by the people of Colorado...
...husband hears about a delivery of logs carved with the names and addresses of prisoners. The woman searches in vain for her husband's name. Nearby another woman finds her loved one's name and caresses the log as if it were a baby. The two then watch in despair as a machine chews the logs into sawdust...