Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain American type. Betty Field is magnificent as the rancher's pathetic wife, whom Lennie strangles absent-mindedly. Stroking a puppy, disgustedly watching her sensual husband suck up his food, drumming her fingers on the table in frantic boredom, she draws an unforgettable picture of the same frustration and despair of farm life to which Hamlin Garland gave anguished voice...
Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...
...card to prospective Freshmen is the Harvard House System. Four pages are devoted in the "General Information" booklet to a description of the central position held by the Houses in the life of Harvard Students. Commanding the river in red-bricked respectability, they are at once the pride and despair of University Hall. For hundreds of undergraduates are each year denied admission to them. Most of these men eventually get into Houses, but for an unfortunate minority who ever win that privilege, Harvard is not doing her duty...
Years of Wrath. Göring's gargantuan lust for living may be glandular, or it may simply be overcompensation for years of privation, despair and wrath. Certain it is that much of his ruthlessness was acquired during World War I and while he was an obscure revolutionary, hating the "Jewish republic." More than Hitler or Goebbels or the late Ernst Röhm, who were abnormal anyway, Göring is a product of Germany's generation of defeat, of which Erich Maria Remarque has written...
...problem by finding a way to get rid of the "A" stock. This has been selling around $30 but, since it is redeemable at $40, the company could not afford to retire it. First sub-committees of the board were formed to work on the problem. Then, in despair, each director was told to tackle it as a committee...