Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms of a man she did not love, and her children's doleful life exactly reflected her own despair. When the whole miserable family sat around the table at Passover arid Father Braunowitz chanted: "And we cried unto the Eternal, the God of our fathers, and the Eternal heard our voice, saw our affliction, our sorrow, and our oppression," John ground his teeth with rage, and told himself that...
Social-minded PBH has adopted a dubious procedure. Yesterday afternoon it sponsored a tea for Yardlings and budding 'Cliffe Dwellers--but only those whose last names began with A through G were invited. The others were advised not to despair, however, because the H through O contingent will be received tomorrow, and the tail end Zombies will arrive for the reception Friday...
Come out of your dismal, crepe-shrouded offices and stop wringing your verbal hands in despair. For there's a bright new world ahead...
...lives in insoluble tension ; in time he exists not as an individual but only as an irrelevant member of a species; in eternity it is only the individual who exists, without society, in ultimate loneliness. Because of this insoluble tension, Kierkegaard deduced, man exists in fear and trembling, in despair and tragedy. What makes human existence nevertheless possible, and overthrows despair, is faith. For in God the impossible is possible, the insoluble solved, time and eternity one, man free...
...Bomb was itself a question. It was little to his credit that it stirred man's ultimate despair more than all the rest of his calamitous handiwork because it seemed to transfer responsibility for his fate from God to man. Presumptuous man, who in all his pryings into matter below vision and into space beyond sight had never been able to answer the first question which the Voice from the Whirlwind put to Job: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth...