Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pictures featuring Eddie Brakcen are always anticipated with a vague premonition of dismay. They are attended with little comfort, and leave a feeling of general despair afterwards. In view of this, why does anybody ever go to pictures featuring Eddie Bracken...
...sizable group of followers down. He serves up a bitter salad of clever preciosity and engaging self-pity: a collection of notes about love, art and religion jotted down while he was on fire-watching duty. Many a highbrow will not see the woods of "Palinurus' " neurotic despair for the trees of his precise and sometimes witty prose...
Their married life was not a happy one. Aurore soon became pregnant and spent most of her time alone in bed, sick with nervous despair and turning pale at sight of her husband...
...years, through hope and despair, Chiang had led China's national revolution. For him, and for China, it had not been an easy revolution, nor a polite one. Now again the vision was bright. Chiang's China stood within sight of its destiny: one mind, one goal...
...more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...