Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Split Nair Dyke. Unfortunately, some Asian students are keenly aware of the family sacrifices made so that they can attend college in Australia; many also deeply fear the loss of face that accompanies failure. Their struggle with Strine can lead to despair and, in some cases, to severe family crisis...
...husband and child in a car crash. She has recovered and lives near Andreas with Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson). Eva has always felt rootless, meaningless, and useless, has remained childless. Her husband, on the other hand, represents a significant alternative to these varieties of despair by maintaining a brutal cynicism. The highly successful architect finds security in his belief in nothingness, considering it "hypocritical" to be moved by the sufferings of others. He spends his leisure time photographing people, pursuing a cool, Skinnerian interest in typing their external behavior...
...somewhat ferced. She seemed almost embarrassed at being on stage, rushing at moments to get through with it. Gary Halcott is convincing as an everyman Andreas Kragler. He is the confused warrior come home to an ungrateful Fatherland, wanting only to sleep with his old honey, sinking to revolutionary despair when be can't have her. Through the play he manages to look progressively more tired and more bored...
...good men, mostly for good reasons-or at least for such good reasons as can be perceived under the pressures of war. But the evidence argues that it was a mistake, simply a choice of a lesser evil over a greater one, not so much moral wisdom as moral despair. Historian Gabriel Kolko suggests a political deficiency, calling the use of the Bomb and reliance on Russian intervention "a triumph of conservatism and mechanism" in U.S. policy. Whether the failing be moral or political, however, it remains the same-a lack of imagination, an unwillingness to risk a new tactic...
...book moves out of the valley to the ideal backdrop for modern despair: the movie colony in Los Angeles. The heroine is Maria Wyeth. an occasional actress married to a young director. The story of Maria's decline from depression to breakdown is told in 84 brief, cinematic takes-84 direct hits on a fragile psyche...