Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs measured the despair of a woman torn between traditional domesticity and unfettered feminism. In Woman of Heart and Mind she wrote...
Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality. Himself an Indian (Blackfoot and Gros Ventre), Welch lives on a 40-acre farm outside Missoula, Mont., where he is now at work on a second novel. Whites, he feels, tend to be too sympathetic or too harsh when they write about Indians. "We don't have those obstacles. To us, being an In dian is home." With remarkable force, Winter in the Blood brings its experiences home to others. Its prose...
...Israelis, the 13 months since the October war have been a period of frustration and despair. "Things are piling up on us very suddenly," says one of Rabin's colleagues. "The other wars never ended in a final settlement, but they at least gave us time to breathe. The 1948 war ended in an armistice and gave us eight years. After 1956 we returned to the armistice and gained eleven years. After 1967 we got a ceasefire for seven years. This time we haven't gained a moment; pressure has been on us continuously...
Drifting without an identity of her own, Tolstoy fell prey to the nemesis of sexist marriage. The holy imperative to devote one's soul to another human being whose primary devotion is to work brought possessiveness, analysis, self-reproach and despair. As if this weren't enough, Tolstoy's perceptiveness forced her to see the vicious source of the entire fiasco--woman's exclusion from meaningful work...
Guest soloist Maureen Forrester gave a superbly dramatic performance of Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer," in an interpretation which emphasized the lyric, folk-song quality of Mahler's melodies. Her rich, sometimes deliberately harsh low register is a magnificent and constant surprise. The alternating sensuousness and despair which she brought to the fourth Song were suggestive of the lilting, tragic songs of Kurt Weil, which also have roots in German-Austrian folk melody. The orchestra--particularly its excellent wind section--gave her exceptionally sensitive support with clean, sharp attacks and supple phrasing. Forrester's spirited but somewhat less exciting...