Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minard left all of us something greater still, the values that his life embodied: those of socialism and decency, and a refusal to see injustice and respond to it idly standing by, or ignoring it, or insisting that it didn't exist. These values cannot die even in great despair and hopelessness. They are unconquerable. They are so much a part of each human being's deepest yearnings that they will endure...
...made from his most popular novel, Hesse takes a fearful pummeling at the hands of one Fred Haines, who visited similar punishment on James Joyce in his screenplay for Ulysses (1967). The protagonist of Steppenwolf, the book's readers will recall, is Harry Haller, a writer enraptured with despair. He plans suicide, if only he can work himself up to it. He is also schizoid: he sees himself as both a bourgeois and a fierce maverick, a prowling, implacable wolf of the steppes. An encounter with a beautiful young woman of mystery, Hermine (Dominique Sanda), brings him the chance...
Meticulous Revival. Tame stuff, until the audience realizes that this is a fantasy of wish fulfillment. The Millers are the family O'Neill would have preferred to those refugees from the House of Atreus with whom he was actually saddled. Throughout the play there are wood-notes of despair that provide a counterpoint, hinting that the Millers have within them the same talent for self-destruction as the Tyrones of O'Neill's autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night. With bad luck, comforting Mother Essie might become junkie Mary Tyrone; responsible Father Nat could turn...
...NATIONAL HEALTH. Death takes no holidays in the terminal wards of this British state hospital; yet gallows humor staunchly stifles despair in Peter Nichols' remarkably percipient drama of human resilience...
...column Today and Tomorrow in 1967, he remained a close observer of world events. When he died last week at 85, he left the unfinished manuscript of his 27th book. Its working title, The Ungovernability of Man, reflected another, different 18th century strain in his character, an occasional Swiftian despair at the aberrations of the "minor Dark Age" into which he had been born...