Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, said Dr. Myerson, if one looks far enough, there is plenty of insanity in every family. What distinguishes the New England Brahmins is a scarcity of schizophrenia (split personality), idiocy and other forms of elation and despair, whose "fundamental basis," said Dr. Myerson, "is an inherited constitution." In the mad New Englanders this inheritance was intensified by a high degree of intermarriage. One distinguished family has had 16 inmates in McLean Hospital...
Call to the Conquered. Few orators since Demosthenes have evoked the emotional quality of the Prime Minister's great exhortation to the conquered. "Do not despair, brave Norwegians: your land shall be cleansed, not only from the invader but from the filthy Quislings who are his tools...
...next to nothing the greatest armies and armaments the world had seen, bursting into rowdyism, drinking, drabbing, killing, doggedly enduring continual defeat until the strength had been built up for ultimate victory, never quite overcoming, but somehow bypassing at last their own vast corruption, treason, bureaucracy, in efficiency, despair...
...beginning, when the Allies were in despair, Woodrow Wilson published his famed Fourteen Points. Their impact was immediate, enormous, beyond all hopes. Little peoples of Central Europe scrambled for what they now saw clearly, for the first time, were their rights: self-determination of government, open covenants, freedom of the seas, removal of trade barriers, a general association of nations on principles of good will, reduction of armaments. The 14 points became the greatest victory of the war, and Woodrow Wilson was the victor...
...from them his ambitious works. He lined a corridor with bas-reliefs of Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor Chiapasco's favorites were the models of the ecstatic features of a Japanese who had committed harakiri, the utter despair on the face of a woman murdered by her husband, the exquisite torso of a young girl run over by an omnibus on a Buenos Aires street...