Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deserted him before he quit; he was in effect judged by his own friends and allies in the Congress. It should be sufficiently obvious to history that Nixon was not driven from office but resigned because he was guilty of, at least, obstruction of justice, and his cause was hopeless. Some diehards, of course, will always believe that the offense was not really serious anyway?and other Presidents have behaved badly...
...Hartford nominated Grasso as the party's candidate for governor. She has been the leading contender in a relatively issueless race since well before she announced her candidacy last January. Two weeks ago her major rival, State Attorney General Robert Killian, gave up what looked like an increasingly hopeless fight against her. He agreed to join the ticket as nominee for lieutenant governor...
...Hostages is finishing off its week at the Harvard Sq. Theater, and without a doubt it's the best new movie around. The plot centers around three French thieves who take a judge hostage when their legal situation becomes hopeless. A very exciting and sympathetic portrait that gets better and better every time you see it. It's playing with another wonderful film about French criminals, Borsalino. Jean Paul Belmondo gives a marvelous performance as an up-and-comer in the Marseilles rackets...
...long as newspapers construe their social roles as conduits of sensation, the levels of human sympathy and understanding to be found in them won't be very high. That's too bad, but the situation isn't hopeless. Other media, particularly film, can take the same sort of events newspapers sensationalize and gloss over, and convey some genuine feeling for what goes on in people's minds and hearts. It is a significant and difficult task--especially in a movie industry that is used to milking "real-life human drama" for all the dough it's worth...
Lenny, like poor mad Swift, was a moralist and a conservative. He scourged human deceits and imperfections because he was inseparably attached to the hopeless absolutes they betrayed. His bottom most affinities lay not with his liberal and youthful supporters but with the judges and cops whom he enraged. He shared that rage in a sense and dreamed of vindication in their eyes and desperately believed that the Law would give him a fair shake...