Word: despairingly
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...ethnocentricism implicit in American history. The great father figures of the presidency were shown to be aloof and unresponsive to their children. Parents, policemen, establishmentarians-all figures of authority-were correspondingly devalued. Moneys were diverted from welfare projects to military hardware, and in response, minorities turned to violence and despair...
Neither inevitability nor revulsion are at the root of sputtering student activism, though; it is that our generation of students caught the crest of the late 60s without experiencing any of the conflicts with established order which came before. Met with the despair and cynicism of a generation that struggled for appallingly just causes, most of us have succumbed to the disappointments of the 70s because we never knew the hopes of that past generation. Our disappointments these last three years should not be so great, though, because it was our predecessors who built the causes in which we joined...
...point? A point at which the President who first bestirred student protest in 1965, Lyndon Johnson, would say shortly before his death, "...many Americans have begun to believe that solutions do not exist. Many Americans have just given up." Lyndon Johnson would say in 1972, "A dangerous mood of despair and defeatism has come over America." This mood has not been missed among students whose every protest, upon which so many hopes were founded, has been ignored or beaten back...
...four years, and that the generation which best knows the errors of the past four years will lose its will to challenge what is wrong in America. It is time to disturb the silence which afflicts our generation. The ultimate tragedy would be for us to submit to the despair and cynicism attributed to us and to our predecessors, and become an ineffectual generation lost to the disappointments of the past. President...
...dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" no longer evoke 19th century triumphs but this century's despair...