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Dates: during 1990-1999
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College is traditionally seen as a time for idealism, yet it seems we live in a cynical age where students increasingly demonstrate collective despair with politics by making apolitical choices. Activism, since the 1960s, has existed in the shadow of that turbulent decade. Nothing could be as big or bold or nationally impressive a demonstration of dissent as the age of D.C. marches and SDS rallies...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: Our Town | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

...down the hill, making my way out through the line forming for taxis and past the same uniformed woman, explaining to a guest that "You'll have to stand in a long line, from which you'll wait in another long line...," I could not help but smile--and despair. The Getty has succeeded as a museum for, and of, Los Angeles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Getty Experience | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

TWENTY-FIVE AND UNDER 1966 A generation of great promise--and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING A FACE ON HISTORY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

LOUISE WOODWARD The tension, the turmoil, the despair, the reprieve. What a tale! Too bad it was real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 29, 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Oscar and Lucinda Bold heiress, sensitive clergyman, sinful passion, a trek into the wilderness. Sounds like one of those "classic" novels you'll never get around to. Don't despair. Gillian Armstrong and her stars, Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett, find something feverishly unsettling under the black robes of Victorian propriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE BEST CINEMA OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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