Word: despairful
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...Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963, Arthur Inman, one of the most bizarre Americans in the history of the Republic, went into his toilet carrying a Colt revolver. The latest in a lifelong string of crises, real or imagined, to cause Inman to despair was rising outside his old haunt in Boston's Back Bay. "The Prudential Tower," he had told his diary, "is 28 stories into the sky, soon will be goosing God." He had fled to Brookline to escape the din of construction, taking with him the noises in his head, and now he was over the edge. "This...
...cross in Golgotha (1900) or lying in a pool of blood as the assassinated French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in Marat's Death I (1907), Munch remains elusive, instead appearing in different metaphorical guises. There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream...
...World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town earlier this month. "There is across the world a new awareness of the moral reprehensibility of what we have allowed to happen in Africa." There is also self-interest. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa points out that disease and despair will hurt the rich world by driving illegal immigration and the dissemination of killer germs if left unchecked. "You can't build a fire wall around Africa and expect its problems not to spread," Mkapa said at the meeting. But the rich world has given Africa around $1 trillion over the past...
...quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream (1893). The howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested...
...story, because her sister could not be contacted. But it does illustrate that the way siblings negotiate such challenges can determine their future as a family. Those trials can bind brothers and sisters together or, as Deborah's story shows, send them spiraling into a vortex of animosity and despair...