Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...
...Freudians could derive benefit from a host of Catholic doctrines and practices, many of which turn directly on central psychoanalytic preoccupations. In connection with neuroticism they might look into the relationships between anxiety and the despair about which theologians have much to say. Theologians also have much to say about confidence and hope and the means of cultivating these good habits. ... In connection with Freud's capital concept of repression, which consists of the violent submergence of undesirable stimuli in the unconscious, they might look into its conscious counterpart, a defect of prudence which the classic moralists called inconsideratio...
...decided to marry another man and have the baby. The setting is Paris in 1938. The characters are kleptomaniacs, homosexuals, heroin addicts, trollops, beachcombers of the Left Bank. They exchange mistresses, money, and a spiritual malaise which the author believes to be at the root of Europe's despair. Most of all, they share a common paralysis of will power in the face of impending disaster. Their lives, Sartre writes, "had ... a kind of insistent futility, a smell of dust and violets...
...embracing "the age of reason" (i.e., an understanding of his own self-dependence). Writhing in an existentialist trance, he proclaims the Sartrian gospel: "... It is by my agency that everything must happen." The author sums up: "Even if he let himself be carried off in helplessness and in despair ... he would have chosen his own damnation: he was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good nor Evil unless he brought them into...
Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary." But Dr. Townsend said not a word. He sat on the platform, twiddling his thumbs...