Word: despairful
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...Reagan's manner and style reassure, and he symbolizes hope in a time of despair. But his form is not connected with his substantive stands on the crucial issues facing the country, any more than the iresponsible GOP platform that emerged from Detroit last week...
...except a victim can truly understand the complete sense of helpless ness and despair that overcomes a once vigorous adult who is suddenly struck down by this devastating, if usually tem porary, ailment. The victim's world quickly shrinks, often limited at the onset to bed or couch. Work and household chores are almost totally ignored, and every movement is fraught with peril. Dressing becomes
Will's despair can be traced in part to a trick of memory. He realizes suddenly that the hunting accident he was involved in as a young boy was no such thing. His father, a thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and himself. A later attempt at suicide succeeded, spurring Will to set out on a path as unlike his father's as possible: "God, just to get away from all that and live an ordinary mild mercantile money-making life, do mild sailing, mild poodle-walking, mild music-loving among...
From the sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than...
...account of a good man's death is bound to be moving. But Heartsounds is far more than case history. Martha Weinman Lear is a born writer, and the resonances in her prose go back to Greek tragedy with its catalogue of grief and noble despair. By the cathartic ending, when there are no more tears to shed and no more afflictions to remember, Martha Lear is finally able to forgive. She realizes that the professionals could not per form a miracle: "The doctor does not exist who could treat such a gravely ill patient for such a long...