Word: despairs
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Nearly all of the remaining stories in the collection were written during the late '40s and early '50s, when the author, now 50, seems to have been under the influence of Joyce and Kafka. Exhaustion, apathy, despair and death are the principal themes. It would have been difficult to predict from these early efforts the Garcia Marquez who is one of Latin America's leading novelists...
Sharing with Solzhenitsyn a despair over the millions who perished in totalitarian hands (including all but three members of my once numerous family), I nevertheless believe that he has failed to comprehend that often democracy is at best a shifting state between the tyranny it overthrew and the tyranny it might become. Even though freedom, tolerance and other qualities might be termed democracy's adjusted faults, these are by far to be preferred to the rigid correctitude of totalitarianism. Like a writer's work, freedom exists only when it is constantly interpreted - even misinterpreted...
...Bartlett Giamatti, the new president of Yale University: "In 15 years, Yale will be more expensive, there will be 1 million fewer 18-year-olds, the capacity to place Ph.D.s will be rarer, the young faculty is increasingly in despair. But we cannot retreat into a siege mentality...
Despite its impeachable sources, The Train Robbers II is at least a real story about small-time overreachers whose moment of glory rapidly dimmed into a life time of despair, anxiety, prison tedium and the need to peddle their questionable confessions. Their literary accessory after the dubious facts tries to keep his end of the bargain. But he finally falters, at tempting to balance his conscience and his contract. -R.Z. Sheppard
Citing reasons why the United States and the Soviet Union have avoided a nuclear confrontation, Bundy said that neither state possessed "a suicidal frenzy of expansion or despair" that characterized Hitler's Germany. Both countries realized that nuclear weapons were catastrophically different from conventional weapons and that restraint was vital for survival, he added...