Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father's exhilaration and hope. Her mother's pain. Her own despair. Are all behind Maria. She is so much the anesthetist's victim that her only sense of being alive comes from "the physical flash of walking in and out of places, the temperature shock, the hot wind blowing outside, the heavy frigid air inside...
What then can I say to you at the end of your college years? It must be, I think, that neither unreasoning zealotry nor despair is an acceptable attitude for Harvard men. You have seen much of one and. I suspect, have at least occasionally been tempted by the other. It has been said that your generation is the first in America to have grown up without optimism. This is a sad commentary if true. Personally I do not believe it is, or at least that it need...
Landscape of Despair. Mauriac's style, as well as his faith, was shaped by the provincial Catholicism of Bordeaux, where he was born. He was bred in a particular kind of Catholicism: peculiarly French, narrowly provincial, at times almost suffocating. The influence of Jansenism, fiercely moralistic and unforgiving, was still strong. The youngest of five children, Mauriac grew up under the eye of a mother who was both domineering and dogmatically religious. He was so burdened by a sense of guilt that even his Bordeaux landscape wore the aspect of sin, as expressed in the outburst of a character...
...Hatcher James says: "If things get bad, the Communist organizers will be in the slum neighborhoods, promising the sky. We've got to improve conditions before that time comes." But South Viet Nam's cities are already developing many of the same fateful characteristics that have caused despair and urban terrorism in other parts of the world...
...second volume in the series, Snow began to exhaust his taste for the tragic in facing up to the morbid life and violent death of Eliot's best friend. The next novel, rather significantly, was titled Time of Hope. Snow has tended to keep mad ness and despair at arm's length ever since...