Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There is an extra cruelty, an extra reason to despair for those whose men are identified by the Pentagon as missing in action. North Viet Nam has yet to release a complete list of the Americans it holds captive, so in some cases the family has not known for three or four years whether son, husband or father is still alive. Timothy Bodden has been missing since June 1967. Says his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bodden of Downers Grove, Ill.: "Even after 3½ years, I still find myself losing control and breaking down. There is an answer to what's happened...
Sacred and Inviolable. In his personal life and his earlier writings, Mishima had openly expressed his despair over the materialistic decadence that he saw in the Westernization of his country. Largely at fault, he felt, was the U.S.-imposed constitution, which "forever renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation." Mishima wanted the prewar constitution restored so that the Emperor would once again be "sacred and inviolable" and so that Japan could regain the honor it had lost in its defeat. To that end, he created his private army, which numbered fewer than 100 young men, trained regularly...
...hoped that Professor Lipset will not give in to despair...
...this is not to say that Movement Toward a New America pictures the movement as a simple glorious struggle which will lead to the creation of a utopian society. Much of the text and pictures are devoted to conveying the feelings of frustration, despair and hopelessness that characterize any revolutionary struggle. And the book is at its best in the "comprehension" sections which serve as a sort of "auto-critique" for the movement...
...most teasing of the brain's secrets is just what is the physical basis of memory. Halacy notes that there are scientists who despair of ever solving that one, on the theory that the brain, by its nature, cannot fully define itself...