Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoids the ambiguity which prevails in the Greek camp, and in the attitude toward war. Jan Farrand is gorgeous, graceful, and convincing as a Cressida who wants to be faithful but simply cannot say no. Bryant Haliday plays a tragic Troilus with maturity and restraint. His statement of utter despair when his world collapses about him is impassioned, but unexaggerated...
Yearning for Secrets. Degas, Valéry reported, did everything the hard way. He "concealed behind harsh and arbitrary opinions ... a despair of ever satisfying himself; his bitter and lofty views developed along with his penetrating knowledge of the masters; his yearning for the secrets he ascribed to them; his perpetual awareness of their baffling perfection...
...trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with . . . vague...
...defeat after defeat piled up (at the hands of Washington University, Marietta, Franklin & Marshall, Case), Wild Bill's squad lost weight. From despair? No, from studying. Says Wild Bill: "When they get a rubdown from the trainer, they are propped up on both elbows reading a textbook. On trips, they study both ways on the train or bus. I'm surprised they don't carry their books to the bench and study when they're not in the game. Probably haven't thought...
...rest are the mirror of the polite divorces and the manifold cultured adulteries of Park Avenue: they are God's commentary on the whole of our society. "Harlem is, in a sense, what God thinks of Hollywood. And Hollywood is all Harlem has, in its despair, to grasp at, by way of a surrogate for heaven...