Word: hopelessness
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...other important races, Republican Governors also felt voter wrath over fiscal problems. Incumbents in the Midwest, Plains and Mountain states were ousted. Farmers' unhappiness over Administration agricultural policy was another factor. Congressman Clark MacGregor, enlisted to fight a hopeless battle against Hubert Humphrey, lost 58% v. 42%, a larger margin than he or the polls had predicted. Minnesota got a Democratic Governor as well. "My hunch," said MacGregor, "is that a latter-day populism is rising in the Upper Midwest. That would explain the similar pattern of voting in the cities and in the rural areas. It would...
...play itself is pleasant, but nothing to write home to Grosse Pointe about. It's got all the constituent parts-hopeless love, show biz, comic relief-but as Eddie tells Fanny in the first act: "Everything you've got's about right, but the damn thing don't come out right." Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's songs, on the other hand, are wonderful, from chorus songs like "Henry Street" to the torchy imitation of "My Man," "The Music that Makes Me Dance...
...fact that Harvard lost the services of senior Dave Powlison, who was poked in the eye on the follow-through of the Cornell player's shot. Ten seconds later the Crimson's leading scorer for the season, senior Tom McGill, fouled out, leaving Harvard in a rare and hopeless water polo situation-a seven to six man disadvantage...
...picturesque, the strange and the quaint, and finding it, they would entirely ignore the poverty and disease with which it struggled. Miss Westman, however unwittingly on her part, offers justification to those who would have the city and its universities drive out the poor and transient in hopeless attempts to return to simpler, pleasanter times. Or worse, she suggests such problems do not even exist, thus making our irresponsibility in such matters all the easier...
George Waid, Higgins Professor of Biology, denied last night that the apathy being displayed by Harvard students was typical. "Students are discouraged. There seems to be a conscious national campaign to turn students off, to convince them that the situation is hopeless. So far the campaign has succeeded in the in the realm of politics...