Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Reed opened the argument by bitterly flaying the Farm Board's crop reduction program. He declared western Kansas could raise nothing but wheat unless it returned to live stock, asked why crop limitation was not imposed east of the Mississippi River, criticized the Farm Board's "gospel of despair...
...verbal tilts have not prevented my becoming one of those to whom he can come, where he will meet neither beatification, canonization nor misunderstanding. Yesterday he came for an ave et vale, and when I solemnly assured him that TIME had him beatified, he registered the correct screen despair. Then he protested wistfully: "Can't they accept me for what I am? Just a man, with these clothes and a few others?" That he will pass palatial, welcoming mansions for an hour with a friend years older than himself in a little redwood cabin near the foothills, clad...
...coming hack, when Bourne is shot through the chest, dies as he is being carried in. With more humor than All Quiet on the Western Front, Her Privates We is curiously like it in tone: in its quiet admiration of some men's courage and cheerfulness, its despair and hatred of a subhuman way of life that uses men to stop bullets, feed rats. Her Privates We points no moral, needs to point none...
...cities, factories, warehouses and elevators have been thrown up in towering accidental masses, as exciting as the Rocky Mountains and also as crude and little subject to esthetic control. In Europe, less disorderly but with no more discretion, most of the new districts can evoke no emotion but blank despair, and even Paris has been partially saved only by the pride of its dead tyrants. . . . The modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern civilization between its proper architectural embankments. . . . Seizing the opportunity offered by the elimination of the requirement of gravitational stability...
...some, socialism is blackness and despair: to others, it is the shining goal of progress, perhaps when the two get together they will see more of both light and shadow. In the meantime, the spectacle of grown up children fearing the dark and imagining things to be which are not, is humorous, perhaps ironic...