Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forthright Elmer Davis knows what confusion has thus far been wrought in World War II. Said he, in a March broadcast: "The whole Government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen different agencies following different lines. . . . Under one head, with real power, they might get somewhere. . . . Objection has been made that it might be hard to pick the man to head them. But almost anybody would be better than half a dozen heads...
...them with courage to hold out bravely and show no sign of fear. While Father Ravoux was speaking to them old Tazoo broke out in a death wail in which one after another joined until the prison room was filled with a wild, unearthly plaint which was neither of despair nor grief but rather a paroxysm of savage passion, most impressive to witness and startling to hear. During the lulls in their death-song they would resume their pipes and with the exception of an occasional mutter or the rattling of their chains they sat motionless and impassive until...
...remainder of the magazine is given over to impressionistic book reviews mainly of "avant garde" literature. Eric Larrabee's excellent review of Robert Frost's new book stresses the fact that we must now turn away from the post-war despair literature of the last twenty years. This May issue is an excellent indication that the swing is taking place in the Advocate Sanctum, at least among the short story writers, who may not be dealing with current war themes, but have departed from the haunted degeneracy of the past few years...
...poet's "wasteland" is constantly evident in the volume, but this poet also finds room for hope and for reaffirmation of individual dignity. Poems like "Every Earthly Creature" and "O Troubled Heart" combine an honest appraisal of the shortcomings of our age with an artist's answer to contemporary despair, and thus add philosophic depth to the poignant cry for lost riches in lyrics like "Prague." If, ultimately, it is in the more personal lyrics, such as "Dissertation on Whose Eyes" and "New York's Eve" that the poet seems to show the depest insight and finest command...
...paesanos he exhorted to "live like lions." It came via Cairo. It tallied in most respects with a series of "Inside Italy" articles by Michael Chinigo, longtime I.N.S. correspondent in Rome, and with information smuggled out by secret societies. All accounts told of hunger in Italy, of disillusionment, of despair...