Word: despairing
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DESPIII FRANK'S loneliness. Harland's Half Acre is not a book filled with gloomy despair. Instead it is filled with endless details of Australian life--every thing and everyone Frank sees...
Young Hearts Crying is the work of a writer who knows the territory, from temporary exhilaration to piercing despair, and who is fully aware that yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth. Richard Yates is usually considered a master of the realistic voice: spare and shrewd, cutting and chilling. But for all the leanness of his writing, his language can carry considerable weight. Without apparent effort it eases past the conventions of simple realism toward deadpan comedy and social panorama. Young Hearts Crying could stand...
...KNOW the situation. It's Saturday night, Madame Baltin, your latest romantic prey, has become tantalizingly available with the departure of her attendant herr, but you have a lingering engagements with pesky Ida (Carolyn Casanave). Despair not if you are Baron Ferdinand Rommer (Rex D. Hays): just have ever-solicitous Gaston ring with some appropriately vague but familiar explanation--"affairs of state" and all. Cole Porter, you certainly know your noble playboys well...
...essay, existential in tone, is one of the most personal expressions ever voiced by a modern Talmudic authority on the elemental power of religious faith and the ways in which the joy of life often comes mixed with longing, torment and despair...
...next year, the 129 men on board struggled to survive, setting up a supply shop and smithy on the frozen tundra, but all eventually perished. Now that he has recovered three bodies, Beattie says, scientists can try to learn whether it was scurvy, toxins in the food or merely despair that killed the stranded crew...