Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Lebanese government was in despair at the waste caused by all the fighting. Though the village had received an estimated $1,000,000, it had little to show for the money except $200,000 worth of investments in real estate. The bulk of the money had simply disappeared. Almost no records had been kept. In 1967 the government finally threw out both competing committees and took over management of the estate itself...
...have been avoided up to the very day on which Hitler took power," and his book creates an agonizing, step-by-step awareness of how things might have gone differently. Hitler thought so too; just two months before he came to power in 1933 he was threatening suicide in despair over an impending split in the Nazi Party. Shortly before that, in Germany's last free election, the Nazis lost 2,000,000 votes, and dropped 34 Reichstag seats...
...RELIGIOUS FAITH never entirely defined accompanies Berryman's despair. It is a faith that invokes God as a protector but does not explore the Divine nature. It revolves less around God than around the poet's personal need for Him. The first section of Delusions, Etc. is composed of eight poems patterned on the Roman Catholic liturgical offices of the day, from Lauds to Compline. Other poems in the collection include a number of prayers ("Somber Prayer," "Overseas Prayer," "Usual Prayer," and "The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man") and a thanksgiving. There is also a poem in honor...
...give any specific idea of what their roots might be and concentrates on the possibility of refuge from his problems in an equally unspecific God. He manages to create a mood in time, but it has neither origins nor resolution. It is a mood of self-centered static despair. Taken in small doses, Berryman's despair is palatable, and the poems are individually very impressive for their not necessarily pleasant combination of craftsmanship and desperation...
...Penn would still be alive. The winner never came. Lindner, playing despite a 100-degree temperature, placed three perfect shots in a row, and it was all over for the Quakers for the third straight year, as Loeb, flat on his face, slammed the ground in fury and despair...