Word: despairing
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...Columbia grads Kathy Crafts (summa cum laude!) and Brenda Hauther attempts to legitimized and even glorifies this unsavory approach to college. The authors actually devote a sizable chunk of the book to the art of cheating itself. "Cheating should be resorted to only in the final depths of despair," they conclude. "If you have sunk that low and there is really no other way out," twisting the rules becomes excusable. Thus they provide a few of the better suggestions and hints to guide your cheating. "Coughing codes and answer passing in class are apparently riskier techniques than the bathroom plant...
With unemployment running at 18.7% in Liverpool, the Pope sought to inspire British youth: "The young, unable to find a job, feel cheated of their dreams, while those who have lost their jobs feel rejected and useless. . . All these ills of society could bring us to disillusionment and even despair if we were not a people of hope, if we did not have a deep and abiding confidence in the power and mercy of God." During the Liverpool motorcade, the Pope passed through Toxteth, the scene of last summer's ugly riots, which was decorated with photos, flowers...
...flame out young, like Keats and Shelley. But few of them enjoyed their later years, and they are all gone now: Berryman, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Delmore Schwartz. They left behind some splendid poems and some terribly sad histories of alcoholism, mental illness, despair and suicide...
...confront evil for the rest of us." Reeves' reporting and analysis compare well with Tocqueville's own, which is to say they are first-rate. His journey through a middle-aged nation that Tocqueville saw in its youth took him through uneven terrain somewhere between smugness and despair, among a population going fairly steadily about its business...
...dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said, "was despair...