Word: despairingly
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...feel like I should be breaking windows," I. F. Stone admitted to a Harvard audience yesterday. "What I really ought to do is incite a riot." Stone's despair, born of reading the morning newspaper, led him to a discussion of a variety of political issues...
Toward the end of the film, in despair at the failure of his diary-experiment, David points an enraged, accusing finger at the camera: "You don't show me the right things. You don't show me anything that means anything. " He had been looking for meaning in experience, and instead is forced to understand that significance is assigned, not discovered. Meaning isn't inherent, it's an attribution; form is what provides the sense of an observation...
...RIOT NIGHTS, however, more than compensates for its laxity of prose and technical inconsistencies, with an epigrammatic finesse that captures better than any Harvard novel to date, college schizophrenia and numinous existentias despair. Although Innis too often is guilty of facile, canned prose, he comes up with some beauties. For example, Randy on the verge of graduation, muses that "Neil Young's tidy answers are not enough...
...films and teaching aids widely used in drug-education courses, the council found that 36 were "scientifically unacceptable"-including four of those distributed by the Pentagon and the armed services. Even those rated acceptable contained many inaccuracies. In one of the most popular films. Narcotics: Pit of Despair, for example, the commentary refers to a "pot-needle" (although pot is not injected), thereby inappropriately linking marijuana with heroin. LSD: Insight or Insanity is criticized for asserting flatly that LSD causes chromosome damage and birth defects when, in fact, the possible genetic effects of LSD are still debatable...
...chief is full of despair. He knows that the Cheyennes, the human beings, will "soon walk a road that leads nowhere," and from then on things will go only further downhill, for "a world without human beings has no center...