Word: hopelessness
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Some criticism of the campaign is voiced by Richard Good-win and Arnold Hiatt, the campaign treasurer, but most of the blemishes are ignored. Nothing in America is Hard to See conveys the hopeless disorganization, the bitter feuding of the national staff and the exasperating unpredictability of McCarthy himself. They were a major-at times predominant-part of the campaign and they should have been part of America is Hard...
Heroin itself is a nightmare almost beyond description. By any of the names its users call it?scag, smack, the big H, horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
Saturday afternoon at Boston Garden, as a hopeless and helpless Yale sextet tried to repeat last year's shocking 3-2 overtime upset. Harvard was as good as its word...
Filmed by David Sawyer over a period of 18 months at the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation, Voices traces the painful progress-and sometimes the even more painful regression -of five supposedly hopeless mental patients. It opens on a staff-patient touch-football game in which a doctor pokes one of the patients and says: "You'll get out of here when you're well and not before...
These are not isolated examples of drug abuse by the very young. They can be multiplied many times over, and they add a frightening new dimension to the newly evolving drug society. What was once the quick trip to oblivion for the hopeless and despairing ghetto dweller has become the quick kick of the children of middle-class America. More ominously, a few of the neophyte users, some of them still short of their teens, are flirting not just with nonaddictive drugs but also with those that can hook and kill. Says Sociologist William Simon of the Illinois Institute...