Word: despairful
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Earlier this year the House passed its own gift ban -- to the despair of restaurants and tour operators. A public relations executive who puts on theater and concert galas predicts that such bonfires of the vanities are engendering "a class of monks, who will live without benefit of cultural influence, except for television...
...despair has not triumphed completely. Relief workers are astonished by the cohesion and sense of community they see around them. In some cases whole villages moved together and reassembled themselves in the camps; the elders ration food supplies; some priests are presiding over congregations 1,000 strong. For those who have been witness to mayhem throughout the past four years of civil war, there were even words of relief. Compared with the life he had left behind, one refugee told a reporter from ABC, "here we are tasting the good life." At least here, he explained, no one was being...
...enveloped by darkness at the commencement of the movie, and industry was the only thing visible, at the end the sun is bright and spring burgeons on screen, nature budding everywhere. From the contrast, one might assume that the characters of the film ascend from the depths of despair to at least a moderate altitude of happiness. On the contrary--what the audience undergoes could only be positively construed as tragic catharsis, where multitudes perish for the audience's emotional benefit...
Something else was on Bush's mind as he sat last week in that front row of Presidents and their wives. In the hours of despair after Bush lost the election in 1992, one of the first letters he received was from Richard Nixon. Few could know so well those depths. "It was just a very sweet letter," remembered Bush. "Very sensitive -- very sensitive and very meaningful for me. And in his role as a former President, Nixon has been very good; never a conflict of interest...
Clinton believes project residents will appreciate the working world only if they're connected to working people. "Much of public housing is what the approaches to hell must be like," says Cisneros. "All they breed besides crime is anger and despair. If we continue as we are, we'll lose another generation of young people." And then, he adds, as public support erodes because the nonworking or underemployed residents are politically powerless, "the projects will fade away and the number of homeless will soar even more." That scenario would be hell for everyone, not just the poor...