Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offers a series of case histories of the famous and the obscure who entered the place as emotional basket cases and emerged as feisty, drug-free graduates. There are no miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb to the temptations of self-pity or despair. Betty and Gerald Ford have witnessed some extraordinary changes in life and in politics, and the sounds that now emanate from the Betty Ford Center may be the cheery clatter of the last laugh...
...lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again." Lines like that were once the cynosure of adolescents and the despair of writers like Ernest Hemingway, who called their creator, Thomas Wolfe, a "glandular giant with the brains and the guts of three mice . . . the over-bloated Li'l Abner of literature...
Tomorrow's event: the reedmaking workshop. Even those who get to sleep after 5 will be prompt. Reedmaking is the essence of piping, the frustration of frustrations (a classic instruction book on the topic is The Piper's Despair). But it is a necessary evil for those who cannot afford to drop $25 or more every time a reed goes bad, which happens maddeningly often. In fact, says Britton, quoting an old oboe players' maxim, "there are no good reeds. We just learn to play the bad ones...
...hero and heroin of "It's Really Me" arelearning to deal with the newly-found frustrationand feeling of insecurity in the real world, withmore than a little help from their friends. Thehero survives a suicide attempt and a brief jailsentence to overcome his despair at the happyending...
...Stephanie Anderson in Duet for One has the plucky, soldiering-on English temperament. Beneath it, however, is a violin virtuoso's rage at being felled by multiple sclerosis. The role, played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak...