Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Divine in New York City, also Episcopal, is much further from completion. Begun in 1892, it still lacks three towers and two transepts. In 1967 then Bishop Horace Donegan decreed that the building, which stands on Amsterdam Avenue at the edge of Harlem, would remain unfinished until "the despair and anguish of our disadvantaged people have been relieved." The present bishop, Paul Moore Jr., however, thinks that the cathedral should be finished, and he may launch a fund-raising effort...
However that may be, Washington was clearly a man of passion who was deeply disappointed in love, a tireless leader subject to profound fits of despair, a father figure who adored children but never had any of his own. He possessed extraordinary skill at getting what he wanted by wanting only what seemed good for the country. Like nearly every Washington biographer, Cunliffe compares the man's virtues to those of ancient Rome: "As for ambition-gloria -it is conceived as a civic impulse, not a private torment ... Washington's desire to be well thought...
Almost from the beginning, there was a tragic inevitability about the fratricide, focused in images of crisis and despair: the foreign community melting away, embassies being evacuated, the homeless seeking shelter, wall posters proliferating with the earnest faces of militiamen killed in the fighting...
Woodwind, brass and percussion players who don't make the orchestra needn't despair: there's always the Summer School Band under the direction of Tom Everett. They don't even require auditions. And they only rehearse once a week. "We just want to give people an opportunity to come together and make some music," Everett says...
...green trees, purple and white petunias and fundamentally decent people who live in Dixon are probably the same as in most small towns. But a leader only leads as he (or she) becomes aware of the people in the cities too -their hurts and frustrations and despair. A bright smile, glad hand and simplistic phrases are not enough...