Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Exiles who dream of a revolution from below would despair. Many of the Cubans we meet show no interest in politics, nor do they talk about a political solution to their country's problems. But not because this is a nation of devout communists: "Most people became revolutionary not from reading Karl Marx," says Blanco, "but because they saw suffering in the streets." Even in the privacy of a dissident's house, there is no eager call for multiparty democracy. Most Cubans do not seem to care what kind of political system they have as long as they have...
...children join her in denouncing him. In the last -- the quietest, most real and yet, one feels, the most tragic -- he settles down at the table to eat yet another loathed diet meal of water-packed tuna as his wife sits opposite, each stuck in the nightly silence of despair...
Speaking on the 30th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, Cisneros told the assembled audience "[Kennedy's] legacy was not a legacy of despair...
Teresa Harris long ago stopped expecting speedy justice. Six years have passed since the Nashville, Tennessee, woman quit her job in despair because of her boss's taunts and bantering. Since then Harris, the former rental manager of an equipment company, has spent long hours sitting in courtrooms trying to convince judges that she was sexually harassed in violation of federal law. Last month, when she got to the Supreme Court, she was braced for another delay...
...there's more, and worse. "Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls," Keillor writes. "Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet, a bad hormone experience. Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees...