Word: despairing
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...channel a docile, well-mannered labor force toward a myriad of unskilled occupations. I.Q. testing and vocational training; the eugenics movement and the Jim Crow laws--all belong to an ideology of oppression that envisions America's oppotunity as an unfulfilled promise, a myth for the masses in despair...
...lavishes some of his most beautiful music on it, including an exquisite canonic quintet in the second act, and, more noteworthy, an extended instrumental section at the end that wordlessly depicts the parting of the Red Sea and the Pharaoh's despair. The Philadelphia production has a solid cast, though Bass Jerome Hines, looking suitably Hestonian as Mosès, no longer has the weight of tone to allow him to sing the part with authority...
Sweeper Beth Mullen had some impressive tackles as she kept the B.C. hordes from coming near the Crimson goal. Lucy Macmillan also did a fine defensive job, on one drive leaving Eagle Lynn Murray lying on the ground, groaning in despair...
Little is offered to ameliorate these spasms of despair. Daniel questions his father about the old man's grandparents, a French-Canadian fur trader and a Blackfoot Indian woman. But seeking his heritage only makes the son realize how much of it has been lost. Seeing unknown relatives at his father's wake, Daniel muses: "For me, they brought with them a crude air as of a settlement in the woods of people of strange blood, a settlement which was not really a success." Reconstructing a gathering his family had held some 20 years earlier, he recalls...
...morals of despair...