Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Bogdan, ranting, crazed with heat, died within a few days. His body was offered to the sea. Sharks collected and began to patrol the forlorn expedition. Certain that they had no chance, men & women prayed and gave way to despair. In their naïveté, the four children sang hymns, prayed and kept up hope, until the adults caught their courage...
...Crockett tries with some success to fit a difficult French verse form to a mood of lyric nostalgia, but the same attempt in "Embarkation" does not come off as well. Both, however, are considerable improvements on his earlier work. Harrison's "The Trap" is a rather conventional cry of despair in the Eliot tradition...
...chafing despair...
...Reader Waugh not despair-but keep on being fighting...
Every Indian who languishes in a British jail, who screams under a British lash, who dies before a British gun, will become a symbol of despair for millions of the colored peoples of the earth. These silent and waiting multitudes will conclude, wrongly no doubt but nonetheless irrevocably, that Western white men offer them only fair words and foul deeds, that the darker peoples have no stake in a war between rival oppressors, and that Axis arrogance may be more tolerable than democratic hypocrisy...