Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion in aid into Czechoslovakia, in an obvious attempt to buy civil peace, if not the loyalty of the country's citizens. As a result, a surface prosperity prevails in Prague that contrasts curiously with the mood of Czechoslovaks; as a nation they remain gripped by apathy and despair. TIME'S Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers, who covered Czechoslovakia before the invasion, returned there recently to file this report...
...same time, a palpable sense of collective despair permeates the country. The reason is not hard to divine. From all indications, the Russians are there to stay. The Soviets have built permanent barracks for their soldiers, apartment houses for their officers and wives, and schools for Russian children. Certain choice seats are reserved for them at the National Theater and several concert halls. Understandably, the Soviet occupiers avoid mingling with the local population, preferring to cluster together in public places, often talking in whispers to one another. Even in civilian clothes, Russian soldiers are easily recognized by their crude serge...
...film about a young rail station guard who tries to grow up during World War II, when all stable values are in question, was one of the series of fine Czech films which emerged before the '68 freeze. Menzel creates an exhilirating mix of adolescent joy and adolescent despair; suicide takes its turn, as does hilariously playful sex. But the boy blows up with his world...
...Danish theologian-philosopher Sören Kierkegaard called despair "the sickness unto death." His description also applies to the severe psychiatric illnesses once labeled melancholia by Freud. These are not the down moods that plague everyone occasionally, but immobilizing and devastating conditions that often cause physical signs and symptoms like loss of appetite and weight, insomnia and slowness of body movement...
After 1945 Böll worked as an assistant cabinetmaker but quit as soon as his first stories were published. A realist and an ironist, his prose is terse and direct, his manner as reticent and unflamboyant as Grass's is slashing and spectacular. The despair of war and its appalling hardship run through all his early work. For Böll, West Germany's postwar economic boom drowned out the moral voice of his country's guilty conscience. In 1959 he published Billiards at Half-Past Nine, a family chronicle in which the founding father...