Word: hopelessness
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...there remains this deep dilemma: while the country cools in a political sense, it continues running hot in the sphere of personal safety. We are disheartened by the cold facts that show crime rates climbing up and up, as unstoppable as the worst type of cancer. It is hopeless, hopeless, hopeless...
...break up into pairs, and you are left standing next to a dapper and muscular fellow named Henry. Henry wears a blue, sleeveless tank top and appears to know what he is doing. He treats you as if you could use a bit of his help, but are not hopeless. Silently, you appreciate this; it is too realistic to be male chauvinistic...
...current uproar over general education, and the oft-heard demand that it be done away with as a hopeless anachronism, brings to mind the days less than three decades ago when the Gen Ed concept was considered a radical innovation in American education. Colleges all over the country enacted programs to insure that they would turn out Renaissance...
...have ceased to have heroes. They're hard to find, especially in government. However, I remember those few years when my generation and the nation in general allowed itself to feel more hopeful than hopeless, the violent minority was a minority, and we believed that this nation could be on its way to better things...
...Smog," the second story, spreads another sort of gray symbolically over all Italian life. The narrator is the editor of an antismog magazine called Purification, financed by an industrialist who is one of the guiltiest smog makers. Nothing might appear more hopeless than the quandary of an Italian couple in "The Argentine Ant," whose baby is overrun by marching ants, against whom all antidotes fail. But the minor characters of this crawly little fable -like Captain Brauni with his Rube Goldberg ant traps-have a jaunty energy that enables them to survive not only their plague but the plague...