Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable book (Histoire de I'Armée Allemande depuis I'Armistice) by Jacques Benoist-Méchin on the German Army revealed the conditions under which Germany had been living since the previous war, her despair, her sufferings, her will to revenge, her work, her success. . . . In France we ignored all that. . . . Munich was the basest of capitulations...
...public last week for the first time since 1901. In Manhattan's Durand-Ruel Galleries visitors could look upon Adolphe William Bouguereau's nearly 12-ft. masterpiece, Nymphs and Satyr. A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's Hoffman House...
...very difficult problem or a series of them . . . when things become too difficult, there are just three sorts of things he can do." The three: work at it harder, from new angles; get mad and attempt to destroy the obstacle, or himself, or something else; give up in despair and sit in apathy or run away...
...there is no need to give way to anxiety, certainly no ground whatever to despair. No one is going to commit this nation to a Machiavellian philosophy just because in a splendid achievement there has been some incidental moral confusion. . . . For the greater action is so sound, and so wholesome at its core that it will transcend the rest, and it will generate a moral energy which will sweep away, like a clean wind, the dusty leaves of sophistry...
...Paine were united in this. Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General during part of the Revolution, calmly declared after it that two-thirds of Pennsylvania's farmers had reached "the perfection of civilization." Even the occasional doubting moods of the Founding Fathers were spirited, compared with the dry despair of later scholars like Henry Adams, or the nebulous affirmations of moderns like Henry Wallace...