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...impotent bat and the omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
...physical therapist who has worked exclusively with physically handicapped children, I have been continually aware of the influence of the press releases concerning patterning on the parents of my patients. To them it is "hope for the hopeless." Some brain-damaged children improve without treatment; some never improve, even with the most attentive therapy sessions, which is heartbreaking for all, but a reality. I have seen too many families frustrated and emotionally and financially burdened when the hope they purchased from the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential was without results. Hopefully with the professional viewpoints emerging, the layman...
...chain of hopeless events will leave this mass of politicized draft-age students ripe for radicalization. The frustration of hard work and crushed hopes will most likely provide the alienating experience necessary to create new radical converts...
...pace. Therein lies one major difference between the U.S. and France in this age of contention. In the U.S., where power is widely diffused, serious dissatisfaction with policies, politicians or institutions can be resolved or at least ameliorated by democratic processes-despite the extremist assertion that "the system" is hopeless. Unlike French workers and students, most Americans with a cause can lodge their protest with the hope of inducing reasonable change by their numbers and their voices rather than by entirely rebuilding society or bringing down an elected government between elections...
...Appalachians are the most hopeless: they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country...