Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being reborn," he exulted. That was 16 weeks ago. A month later Brudno's mood had changed. "I knew the initial euphoria would pass, and it has," he confided to the wife of a fellow P.O.W. "I'm feeling pretty depressed these days." Brudno's despair deepened, and last week he ended his life with an overdose of sleeping pills. Before he died, he wrote, in French, "My life is no longer worth living...
...test of a good counter-questionnaire is the individuality of the answers that it elicits - first prize going to the lady who answered the question, "Where are you likely to spend eternity?" with the simple statement of despair: "In Worcester...
...soaring price of gold-up to a record $118.75 an ounce in London-and the continued rise of inflation and interest rates combined to hammer the Dow Jones industrial average down 37 points, to 894. After a brief moment of sunshine, Wall Street again became a valley of despair...
Killing Everybody is a fortunate fall from lofty disgust. Harris has captured the pathology of the present age with out gloating over it or surrendering to despair. His characters are victims, but they have shored large fragments of human vitality against their ruin. If Killing Everybody is uneven, it is also per meated by a compelling amalgam of rage and love...
...against millennia of rumbling stomachs, pain and despair, the words bear unself-conscious profundity...