Word: abjectness
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...attempt to escape his loneliness and frustration, Benji turns to drugs. His habit gets progressively worse and little by little his world falls apart: first he starts stealing from his own family, then a friend dies of an overdose and finally, in a moment of abject despair, he attempts suicide...
DIED. Ethel Waters, 80, spellbinding black honky-tonk singer who became a dramatic star on Broadway; of heart disease; in Chatsworth, Calif. Born out of wedlock in abject poverty and farmed out to a succession of relatives, Waters was working as a chambermaid for $3.50 a week when she won first prize at an amateur night. She went on to sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton...
...have proved impotent in solving these problems, and simply created time bombs in the underdeveloped world. The solution is, in the words of Lopez Portillo, for the rich to give up their "arrogance, which is easy but sterile" and for the poor to avoid "submission, which is easy but abject." "We have chosen the difficult road of dignity," he added, "based on the liberty that we want to sustain and the responsibility we wish to assume...
...Blacks as Strong, Proud, Culturally Cohesive. The trend began with the Lyndon Johnson years and the rise of militant blacks who scorned the devastated-victim theory as unworthy and abject. The Moynihan report was rejected, if not disproved. Historian Herbert Gutman began work on the view of the black family as shrewd, strong, not nearly as weakened as it had seemed. The extended family had resources unsuspected by whites...
...ground, abject and ignominious...