Word: despairful
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...make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwin, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told us that there must be an unavoidable conflict between what we believe and what we do. At the deepest level, our President has counseled despair...
...Rogers to appear on a staircase. Such decorative exaggeration is paralleled by Zeffirelli's treatment of his story. Each time The Champ hits a melodramatic climax, which is roughly once every five minutes, the director brings up soppy music and goes for the jugular. When the champ, in despair, discards a Teddy bear he had planned to give his son, Zeffirelli actually cuts to a closeup of the abandoned...
...concern. They chip away at crusted traditions to reveal a musical substratum running under the characters, explaining the emptiness of their lives. This underlying music--on which director Peter Sellars has focused both literally and thematically--softens the desperate boredom of Chekhov's characters, but it also carries their despair home with sentimental poignance...
...like trying to perform a heart transplant--you'd better have the replacement handy. The first act, for example, could as easily be set in Yonkers as in Vienna. True, the Lowell dining hall has little potential to be converted into a ballroom, but Lowell Opera gives up in despair from the start...
...feeling guilty about it." Dartmouth men, especially jocks and fraternity men-the latter also only 30% of the student population-frankly lament the change. "What's wrong with four years without women?" a fraternity boy asks. Just lately the faculty has stirred a certain amount of rage and despair in many a Big Green breast by urging the college to abolish its 22 fraternities on grounds that they are antithetical to academic progress, unhealthy for social conduct, as well as being noisy centers of alcoholic disruption and childish antics...