Word: despaired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of fiction on the lives of European Jews. Children of Vienna, a much slighter story, is addressed, says Vienna-born Author Neumann, "to the men and women of the victorious countries"-especially to any who have failed to imagine life in the rubble "east of the Meridian of Despair...
Congress to begin to plan concretely, to prepare for useful public spending, for the stimulation of private investment, for increased mobility in the labor market, for all those rationalizing tactics in fiscal and tax areas which will prevent the sickening spiral downward into the dumps of joblessness and despair. It's getting very late...
...peasant who has spotted the hidden airfield near his birthplace. But the peasant has never been in the air before, and cannot read maps. From a new perspective, at a time when every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits to a tragic disintegration which Chaplin himself hardly ever surpassed. The peasant's face, his suddenly unfamiliar country and the roar of the rickety bomber, throughout this beautifully filmed scene, combine to make a heart-tearing embodiment of man's predicament...
...save the people; Thine they are, Thy children, as Thy angels fair; From vice, oppression, and despair, God save the people...
...Cemetery, generally called Grief. Adams was buried next to his wife, at the foot of the statue. Characteristically, he was much annoyed when people asked what Saint-Gaudens' seated, hooded figure symbolized. "Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption - Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap or Macy's Men's Suits Made to Measure. [It is] meant to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered the Sphinx...