Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koestler's only hope, more a counsel of despair than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer...
...critic did finally manage to enter. What he found (and reported in last week's Parisian Arts magazine) was almost enough to ring the bells in art-conscious Paris. His discovery: the past-master of distortion and despair in oils had been painting like a happy man once more...
...year-old Charles Townsend Copeland. There is the unauthenticated tale of his becoming eligible for a professorship only to be stymied by the fact that he had no Ph.D. Faced with the problem of locating someone who could give Copey an oral examination, the board gave up in despair and waived the requirement. To this day he holds only a Doctor of Letters award...
Voices of Despair. French Communist newspapers tried to glamorize the voyage. On board, they said, were retired Russian Generals Postovski and Makhrov and four Princes Obolensky. Actually, the Generals were basking in the Riviera sun, the Princes apparently, in no hurry to leave Paris...
...once-gay whoopers learned to shun civilization. Whenever the white man's guns appeared, they fled deeper into the wilderness. Now their remnants breed in some unknown place in Canada's far north. This tactic of despair may be their final undoing: they are not Arctic birds, and are probably unsuited to far northern breeding grounds...