Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change in atmosphere. Intrigue, speculation and confusion abound. For more than an hour last week, the national soccer team refused to leave its field so the ragtag People's Army could parade before foreign television cameras. In private, high-ranking government officials acknowledge that there is widespread dismay and despair among Iraqis over the consequences of the nation's invasion of Kuwait. Influential citizens claim knowledge that the attack was opposed by 18 colonels and generals, as well as by several senior ministers...
...face of entropy, Rabbit refuses to despair. He is never bored by the everyday details of his now-foreign culture. He remains fascinated by "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne" and by the television sportscaster (Ahmad Rashad) he calls the "black guy with froggy pop eyes...
...among disturbed kids, says Dr. L. David Zinn, co-director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Adolescent Program, includes difficulty in school at age eight or nine, withdrawal from friends and family and persistent misbehavior at 10 or 11 and skipping school by 15. But the most serious indication of despair -- and the most devastating -- is suicide attempts. According to a report issued in June by a commission formed by the American Medical Association and the National Association of State Boards of Education, about 10% of teenage boys and 18% of girls try to kill themselves at least once...
...this is accompanied by a new isolationism, the notion that with the collapse of communism, there is not much left for America to do in the world, that the U.S. should circle the wagons. There is also economic isolationism, otherwise known as protectionism. And there is the isolationism of despair: the conviction that in winning the cold war, we spent so much of our treasure that we no longer have the means to exert much influence abroad -- that the U.S. is increasingly "irrelevant...
Scarcely a page of The General is free from images of reaction, decay and despair. The strongest character in the book is Bolivar's cigar-smoking mistress, a typical Garcia Marquez macho woman. Not surprisingly, the novel did not sit well with many Latin Americans when it was published last year in its original Spanish. The author's antimythic portrait of Bolivar as a mixed- blood man of the Americas nursing his lost cause offended those who preferred the familiar Europeanized hero prancing on horseback...