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...phrase it, "an absence of hope," differs from garden-variety glumness as, say, double pneumonia differs from sniffles. It is not a new ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...
Moscow's custom is to ignore foreign speculation about possible leadership changes. But last week Tass went out of its way to denounce the stories about Brezhnev as "groundless inventions." TIME Correspondent John Shaw cabled from Moscow that if Brezhnev is physically well, he can successfully defend his policies and his pre-eminent position. "Still, there is a sense of unease in Moscow; diplomats here feel that something is stirring in the Politburo, as if the ground had shifted slightly but unmistakably...
...Ford staff. "I feel like a Martian mutation?I've got so much scar tissue," he says wryly. While Haig performed heroically in holding Nixon's White House together in the last days and helped persuade Nixon to resign, suspicions of the general's pro-Nixon sentiments are not groundless. He had, after all, helped push the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, out of office after playing a devious role in the phony Stennis compromise on the Nixon tapes. He had also managed to disregard much of the evidence against Nixon until it was too devastating to ignore. In returning...
...then. The U.S. Army kept recruiting briskly at Tule Lake. Many volunteers from this and other camps went into the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese-American fighting unit that served in Italy and France with extraordinary distinction. Indeed, the fear of the Japanese Americans' disloyalty ultimately proved groundless. During all of World War II, no Japanese American living within the U.S. was ever convicted of sabotage...
...stay, Blue-Collar Journal, he never manages to ditch this early alter-ego. For while he maintains a certain down-to-earth, unpatronizing attitude toward the class he is visiting, the chunks of sociology he offers back up to us higher orders tumble back down upon his head, groundless, as often as they manage to make the grade. Coleman is forever uncertain of the proper distance to keep from his proletarian brothers, usually resolving the conflict between his roles as observer and participant by digging his own hole, struggling awk-wardly off by himself while contenting himself that...