Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story ends his pardon is imminent, but the nephew-narrator will not be there to greet him; he is leaving home for good, going North to college. But John has begun to understand that his uncle's criminal outbreak was a gesture less of lust than of despair - "repeated and forever repeated, the rape of the mind by the body...
...across the health, in the rain and darkness and screaming wind, struggle the figures of two men. the wind whips and twitches at their cloaks, and the men, bending into it, move with the slowness of despair. Hear them talk as they labour through the darkness with the, subtle echo of madness in their voices, the younger one babbling pointlessly and the old one muttering courses to himself. He curses his daughter and his dismal fate, his weak age and his cracking brains and the fool beside him. Lightening picks pot their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly...
...springs which he may never reach. . . . To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone-when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will-then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure...
...times we feel that the author over-plays the conflict and distorts his character out of the realm of reality but many more times he makes us experience the very emotions that drove Vridar to despair. There is no denying the intensity and vividness of the novel. On the other hand, the all-prevailing morbid tone often distorts the view so that it may not be seen from a proper vantage point...
...amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson. The wonder is that the professional comedians don't unionize in an attempt to preserve their interests and send a lobby to Congress...