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...urge you to remember that Americans often grow impatient when they cannot see light at the end of the tunnel -when policies do not overnight usher in a new order. But politics is not magic. And when some of our fellow citizens despair of the tedium and time necessary to bring change-as, for example, in Viet Nam today-they are forgetting our own history...
Despite the topicality of student protest, most speakers who took a broad look at the college generation fell far short of despair. Robert Rankin, associate director of the Danforth Foundation, told University of Redlands graduates that "you embody less silliness, a greater degree of personal maturity, more concern about humanity, and more candor and integrity than any student generation in this century...
...depths, Montale in the prime of life cried out to his fellow man for help. His fellow woman answered, but Montale found sex to be an arm of the elemental octopus and love itself a surrogate ("your life, your blood in my veins"), not a solution. In despair, he turned away from human amenity and stared into the abyss of unbeing. In horror he demanded: "What is the name of the void that invades...
Starting from the sub-cellar, Portfolio erected a Harvard football edifice which was in those days the envy and despair of every other team in the country. The curtain was raised on a new era of Harvard happiness and on a series of victors which constituted the crop which was to be reaped from Portfolio's seeds of ingenuity and a just award of his ability...
...down to the Malaysian peninsula-the geopolitical heart of Southeast Asia. Once fabled Siam, rich in rice, elephants, teak and legend, Thailand (literally, Land of the Free) today crackles with a prosperity, a pride of purpose, and a commitment to the fight for freedom that is Peking's despair and Washington's delight. The meadow inevitably has its dark corners, notably the less fecund northeast, where Red insurgency is struggling for a foothold. But the military oligarchy that rules Thailand in the King's name is confident the Communists will not succeed...