Word: despairful
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...storming of Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's apartment, in the bulldozers crushing an unofficial art exhibition, in the new flow of political prisoners into the concentration camps that Khrushchev had virtually emptied. Some of the country's most talented dancers, musicians, writers and scholars are retreating in despair from neo-Stalinism and from cultural stagnation. Many are emigrating and defecting to the opportunities-and the pains-of exile. The remaining dissenters are depressed. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the hero of those who cherish civil rights, insists that there have been no reforms since Khrushchev's modest relaxations more than...
Passion and Despair. War and Peace is finally catching on. In 1973 the work was chosen to open the new Sydney Opera House. A year ago in Boston, Sarah Caldwell presided over the first U.S. staging. Last week in New York, at long last, the Bolshoi Opera unveiled the production of War and Peace that it has been performing in Moscow since 1959. With chandeliers shining, cannons roaring, soldiers marching and Moscow burning, it was, as it should have been, spectacular. Coming along as the fifth of six productions offered by the Bolshoi during its current American debut...
...along in the Tolstoy novel, with Prince Andrei Bolkonsky on a visit to Count Rostov's country estate, musing on the seeming emptiness of his life, then discovering Rostov's beautiful daughter Natasha. That and the next six scenes depict, with a mixture of passion, intrigue and despair, the decadent social life of prewar Russia. The last six scenes are devoted to the French invasion of 1812. Napoleon struts nervously (to the accompaniment of diabolic fanfares in brass), while Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov praises the people and plots the invader's doom ("The beast will be wounded...
...same time he views this as a self-deception and a tragedy. After all, the word balloon is not a balloon, and our confusion of the two is the cause of what he refers to variously (these essays were written at different times) as alienation or existential despair...
...biggies have waived the usual rules: no time limit, no penalties, no substitutions. As Jonathan skates his way toward the goal, the weight of all humankind presses heavily on his ball bearings, and it seems he will give in. Jewison has no patience with despair, however, and the movie concludes with a strong dose of spiritual uplift. Jonathan defies the corpo ration and shakes society to its roots. Maybe this means they'll have to bring back war and famine...