Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury, rage and excess, anger and despair, defeated dreams, filled every page of the novel [and] Frank was sometimes faintly embarrassed by the wealth of adjectives. . . ." This is an embarrassment that Author Caldwell never seems to feel...
...Fascism, Biographer Schwarzschild points out, are Marxist mutations whose predestined political form is therefore the police state. In Nazi concentration camps, as in Russian forced-labor camps, Karl Marx was the presiding genius. In the name of human progress, Marx has probably caused more death, misery, degradation and despair than any man who ever lived...
Such a Miscalculation. Soviet spokesmen could rant & rave; they had plenty of time for it. The prolongation of Europe's plight played into Communist hands. This was the level where the Soviet Union was well equipped-the ideological level, where Communism feeds on misery and despair. So the inevitable question arose: "What does the U.S. do next...
...there any bypassing God. For, while men may try to forget or deny God, they cannot forget what Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called "the God-ache." Implicit or explicit in all Kafka's work, the source of his religious rage, his drama, irony, despair and compassion, is this incompatibility, this eternal misunderstanding of God by man-the inability of man to grasp, by limited human standards, the standards of divine Justice or divine Grace...
...spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who know him best for the mounted Indians on Chicago's Congress Street Plaza will find his Metropolitan sculptures quite different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories told in wood relief, which Městrović prefers for biblical subjects because it is "more living than stone." Says he: "No work of art can live without some remote religious conception...