Word: despairing
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Then there is what we do not see. For those first-years who have yet to venture over to the MAC, you must be forewarned: there are no treadmills. Do not despair...
...from Go West, a tough cowpoke orders him at gunpoint to smile; after considering whether he'd rather die, Keaton fingers the corners of his mouth into an awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...
...Crimson's arguments come down to simple pessimism about the prospects for changing an entrenched institution. As the Undergraduate Council is, the paper suggests, it shall remain--at least for the foreseeable future. Reformers must despair. PUCC's active and growing membership disagrees. Mr. Chung ends with the despondent coda, "I'll see you on a cold October night at the [council-sponsored] Gala Ball." Mr. Chung can do whatever he likes with his October nights. PUCC will be working, hopefully and collaboratively, to transform Harvard's politics in the interest of all students. --Garance Franke-Ruta '96-'97 Tobias...
...past 60 years, the system of welfare established by the Social Security Act of 1935 has manifestly failed to achieve its goal of eliminating poverty. Instead, the system has in many respects made it more difficult for America's poor to escape the cruel trap of poverty and despair...
...cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...