Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the audience as they portray over-the-top derangement. All are good, and the two nuttiest -- Gary Whitaker, as the youth who comes to believe he is an alien, and Brenda Blethyn, as the neglected wife who regresses into toddlerhood -- rip open psychic dungeons to unleash dragons of despair...
Harvard students did not despair at the twofeet of snow that has covered the ground. Manytook the opportunity to do a little sledding onthe steps of Widener Library...
...audience member who has sat through what feels like three hours of urban despair, albeit interwoven with homilies and hopes, that statement is startling. It is also a reminder of the real message of A Christmas Carol, in any form: Look at the forgotten and see them whole...
...city and country, on the left and the right, comes a shared sense of despair at the carnage. "There's an absolutely solid, growing sense that we've got to do something about all those guns," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Rice University in Houston. "Most Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what they're increasingly demanding is rational control over guns...
...cause of all this violence and stuff," she said. "You didn't see all this violence in school when they were praying at school." A classmate, Jamie Meadows, agreed: "It won't hurt anything." Knox too believes prayer can help alleviate problems brought on by guns, gangs, drugs and despair. "I faced the test," he said last week. "And I have stood on what I believe...