Word: despairful
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Fugard's latest drama concerns violated souls: three people who have been reduced to the bleak courage of despair. The aloe is a prickly outcast of a plant. Piet Bezuidenhout (Harris Yulin) sees in it the alchemy of survival. He is himself a spiny outcast, having been ostracized by his erstwhile comrades in the antiapartheid movement as a suspected informer...
...pacifist armchair radical extraordinaire, Walzer was militant enough to take to the streets in protest of the Vietnam war. His own paradoxical intellectual history parallels both the triumph and despair of the Left in this country over the past two decades. Those liberals whose idealism withstood the disillusioning '70s can only be passive in their concern for social justice--"working within the system" has replaced the passionate efforts to effect fundamental changes in society. A more just and egalitarian vision of the future seems like a faded dream, but the memory of the hope still remains...
...inventiveness of despair, Carrie suggests that she and Oliver have a pretend-affair of their own to win their spouses back. The working of the ruse and the very clever denouement are as sacrosanct as the secrets of the confessional and the whodunit...
Crimson captain Chuck Durst felt the despair, too. The senior defensive tackle had turned in another stellar performance, but he saw early-season prospects evaporating into the gray New Jersey sky. The Harvard assemblage that had marched down to West Point and won the war sprinted out to a 4-0 start and guarded high hopes for an Ivy crown seemed all but eliminated...
Magaril's evocation of Alan's rage and despair create a palpable tension in the audience. The alacrity of his mood swings--at one point he switches instantly from a curious and confused six-year-old to a wretched adolescent screaming violently at the top of his lungs--has an almost eerie effect. Likewise the solemnity and fervor in his ritual mounting of Equus, riding him until he is caught in a libidinous-religious frenzy...