Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply known as "Pharaoh," and Shelley's poem Ozymandias, inspired by the fallen statues at the Ramesseum, his mortuary temple at Thebes, takes its title from the Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually decay, Ramesses' achievements were truly magnificent...
...Soviet Union was saved only to eventually decay and collapse. On this anniversary of V-E day, the old soldiers' children are assessing the past as well, but they have neither tragedy nor triumph to commemorate. Their stories are of disillusionment and despair...
...does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." Angry rhetoric is not new. But neither is America's balm for it. Thoreau would vanish into the woods of Walden to deal quietly with despair. And in the moments of silence Americans devote to contemplating the probable causes of the horrors of Oklahoma, another venerable piece of Thoreau's advice should resurface: "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." --Reported by Sam Allis/Boston and Nina Burleigh, James Carney and Douglas Waller/Washington
...assiduously shows how conversation during the plague years was held at a distance for fear of infection. Everyone on-stage is isolated in space. Most of the cast mills about the empty stage like nomads, their tired despair growing into apathy and hatred. Surrounded by a vacuum of open space, they look small and, conversely, their plights seem small. A few actors, most noteably Jessica Fortunato and Brad Rouse, manage to fill the ample Mainstage...
Although its record was not good enough to qualify for the Easterns--only two teams make it, and this year it was Dartmouth and Amherst, the only two teams that beat Radcliffe--the team members do not despair. The Black and White won the Mayor's Cup Tournament in the fall hosted by the Beantown Club team (whose players and former players coach Radcliffe),beating Amherst for sweet revenge in the finals. And the players express confidence that winning the Easterns and thus earning a trip to the Nationals (which has not yet been achieved by Radcliffe...