Word: despairful
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Events kept me away from that comp, but byThanksgiving ambition and despair compelled mefinally to hitch on with The Crimson.Fortunately and unfortunately, my mocking disdainand unrepentant snidery enabled me to fit right inat 14 Plympton St. I had been floating throughHarvard for a year and a semester, but TheCrimson provided me with a personal and socialballast
There are hundreds of writers waiting in varying stages of despair for their phone to ring. They dream of giving interviews, being summoned to lionizing appearances and literary lunches. A reviewing assignment would be welcome; a request to blurb a fellow author's new book would not go unconsidered. But life is unfair. Those who have get, and those who could get sometimes choose not to. Like J.D. Salinger, who has spent most of his 69 years ducking the sort of publicity that most authors would kill...
...core of Mamet's pell-mell 88-minute play. Of all American playwrights, Mamet, 40, remains the shrewdest observer of the evil that men do unto each other in the name of buddyhood. Obsessed with the need for ethical debate, he nonetheless brings as much delight as despair to his portraits of panthers on the prowl, sharks in a feeding frenzy, business guys in suits. This may be partly because the characters are drawn from Mamet's real life in Hollywood. Part of last week's media furor about the play, in fact, was the assertion that Mantegna's role...
...Mike Dukakis go around here talking aboutpink slips, despair, pessimism in the UnitedStates," Bush said. "I'll be the guy out theretalking about hope and opportunity and challenge...
...crammed into the microchips of FBI, IRS, police departments. Too many books altogether, perhaps. The glut of books subverts a reverence for them. Bookstore tables groan under the piles of remaindered volumes. In the U.S. more than 50,000 new titles are published every year. Forests cry out in despair that they are being scythed so that the works of Jackie Collins might live...