Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glittering Despair...
...wondering about your article on Carole Landis [TIME, July 19]. I find it pointed and sarcastic-yet true. Perhaps you are right in printing it, for too many people find despair, rather than happiness, in a glittering world of false comforts...
...corrosion of their bronze base had seeped through the pores in the gold leaf with which Ghiberti had covered them. Over the years, the doors had dulled, and even Florentines had come to despair that there was any gold left...
...Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy of Romeo. This tale teems with the wit for which France was once famed, and brings a genuine touch of comic relief to a world of despair...
Truman-and his White House staff-had left their despair out West. The President was sure that his campaign strategy was now well set. Its theme: the Plain People's President Against the Privileged People's Congress. He had practiced the punch lines all the way back from California and, on audience reaction, he thought they were surefire. He denounced the "rich man's tax bill"; he bedeviled "the special-interests boys"; he warned of "special privilege against the interests of the people as a whole...