Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joggers make me sick. There are plenty of them around here. They run past me with supercilious smirks on their red faces. What are they trying to prove? I hope they all drown in their own sweat...
...Deputies were left in charge of their delegations. While some resolutions will undoubtedly be adopted, they will, as usual, have little impact. Complained one delegate: "Many countries seem to downgrade the OAS once these meetings are over. We spend a lot of time spinning wheels." U.S. delegates had little hope that the conference would agree to the basic reforms Washington wants: trimming the bloated OAS bureaucracy, assigning the hemisphere's ministates nonvoting status, changing the rules so that the U.S.. which provides 67% of the $72 million OAS budget, would pay no more than 49%. Thus the organization...
...talk of them in cliches, but do not really see them. Then there are "the blacks" as a large, looming abstraction, a vast uncertain threat. It casts an inevitable shadow over the heart breakingly lovely landscape, over everything that is done, every political act, every economic plan, every white hope. In the mind of the white South African, there is usually very little connection between the two incarnations: the houseboy, the factory worker, the shop assistant are so familiar and often so placid that one can scarcely link them with that other, menacing force. Partly that is because black life...
...have no plans beyond a search for other producers. They may not be easy to find. Papp is the second tenant to fail at the Vivian Beaumont. "This is a sort of bad-luck house," says Bernard Gersten, his associate producer. "It has not yet worked for anybody. I hope it will...
...electoral defeat in March. But that hardly matters. If anything, the author seems to have preferred the emergency to the old-style Gandhianism of Morarji Desai, now the Prime Minister. The real crisis, writes Naipaul sadly, is neither political nor economic, but that of a decaying civilization whose "only hope lies in further swift decay." There is no clue as to the shape of the approaching apocalypse; only the chill warning that "the past has to be seen to be dead, or the past will kill...