Word: despairing
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They are like butterflies, iron or lace, caught in the political turbulence created by their husbands. They can be flashes of beauty and grace in the dark crevices of society or symbols of comfort and quiet hope in times of national despair. First Ladies have an impossible job, and each has a different challenge...
...Marriage may be compared to a cage," wrote Montaigne. "The birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out." In this case, the birds managed to get out, but they squabbled over their gilded Hollywood cage. Farrah Fawcett, 35, the buttery femme fatale of television's Charlie's Angels, and her estranged husband, Actor Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy), 41, were granted a divorce in Los Angeles owing to irreconcilable differences. There was, however, one nagging question: Who should get custody of their $2.5 million Hollywood Hills house? Majors...
...seeming, however, is not the reality, since there is a movement at the United Nations which is crystallizing itself from the disorder and despair which have resulted from among other things persistent disagreement on ground rules of international ethics between the U.S. and Russia the acceleration of the arms race, the severe fluctuations in international commodity prices, accelerating worldwide inflation combined with staggering recession in many of the lesser developed countries (LDC's) and increasing rural-urban and traditional -modern tensions in the LDC's. This movement, known as the New International Economic Order (NIEO), is crystallizing itself into...
Which is not to condemn Kafka in the least, for his suffering was truly awful: Hayman believes that it was quite an achievement for the writer to have salvages as much as he did from his despair. Even Edmund Wilson, in an essay that otherwise sternly downplays the importance of his work, concedes that "the cards were stacked against poor Kafka in an overpowering...
...more appropriate title for the book might be Marriage II. "Divorces are made in heaven," quipped Oscar Wilde, and Alvarez agrees. His own divorce was a pre-emptive strike against despair. It enabled him, in time, to marry a Canadian psychologist, and live happily ever after. Alvarez concludes that marriage is really the platonic desire for the pursuit of the whole-minus, of course, the crusts...