Word: despairing
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Even in this moment of despair, the strength of Lincoln's desire to leave "the world a little better for my having lived in it" carried him forward. It became his lodestar, providing a set of principles and standards to guide his everyday actions...
...perform manual labor in a tractor factory and wait on tables in a mess hall. Members of Deng's family were also punished for his political sins. His younger brother Deng Shuping, a city official in Guiyang, was hounded mercilessly by self-appointed Red Guard officials and in despair committed suicide in 1967. His elder son Deng Pufang, a 22-year-old student at Peking University, was crippled for life when he was denied medical treatment for a broken back, sustained in a fall caused by Red Guard tormentors. His daughter Deng Rong and younger son Deng Zhifang were banished...
Normally in Murdoch's fiction, isolated and frankly artificial settings help resolve dilemmas or at least recast them into familiar types of allegory. But Seegard adds to Edward's confusion and despair. Nothing here is quite what it seems, and the moment one set of deceptions is exposed, another takes its place. Edward finds Jesse, but the old man is apparently being held prisoner in his own house. He says the three dutiful acolytes have tried to poison him. The women tell Edward that Jesse is ill and deranged, a demigod whose powers have failed. The visitor wonders...
...majority of Haitians, meanwhile, sink deeper into economic despair. Haiti's annual per capita income is $280, though for 80% of the population it is closer to $100, making Haiti the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The hard-hit Haitian tourist industry lost $30 million last year, in part because of the high incidence of AIDS in Haiti. The government's often arbitrary imposition of new taxes to fill government coffers has discouraged new investment. Emigration, a traditional relief valve for hard-pressed Haitians, has been closed off as the U.S. and others have cracked down on illegal immigrants...
...ability to convey the milky blue water over a Florida sand bottom in two washes of cerulean and cobalt. One knows how little time it took to see and how little to do; but one senses the years of self-critical practice behind it. No wonder Homer is the despair of every amateur. --By Robert Hughes