They invented democracy, and now it's time to rekindle that Greek spirit of innovation and ingenuity — before economic trouble generates further despair and its dangerous progeny in the streets and in the ballot box.
They had come to the conclusion that words were not enough, and what was called for were deeds: extreme, dramatic deeds that would strike at the heart of the unjust, oppressive social and political order, generate fear and despair among its supporters, demonstrate its vulnerability to the oppressed, and ultimately force political and social change.
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, his loves and despairs generate stimulating ideas, chips from shoulders, and obsessively detailed descriptions of movements through the towns and cities he visited with his photographer, Joel Anderson.
In some ways I feel as if I've seen a vision of the future – a penal institution designed to heal rather than harm and to generate hope instead of despair.
"Challenging the choices of peoples will only result in fuelling the feelings of despair and generate waves of wrath," he told an international conference on Democracy and Development in the capital, Doha, in April.
But for more susceptible ears the cumulative despair generated by this performance is absolutely crushing.
Violence is rising and economic conditions are ruinous, all of which are generating anger and despair.
The point of these clashing styles is clear enough — when they're not in the air, these characters feel flat in every sense — and yet the film, poised between pastoral lyricism and urban despair, generates an uncanny atmosphere that's not easy to shake.
Reflecting on the Cypriot clinical setting, the students are often found trapped in situations that can generate feelings of disappointment, distress, despair and anger due to the inability or the ill-preparedness of the student to handle such situations.
