Word: despairs
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Georges Bizet's Carmen is an opera rapt with passion, where conflicts of love and loyalty, hope and despair play roles as large as the individual characters themselves. The story of Don Jose, a corporal in the Spanish army torn between his duty and his love for the seductive and dangerous Carmen, this work has virtually shaped the myth of romantic 19th-century Spain...
Shocking as they are, the statistics are at risk of adding to the dehumanization that breeds the despair here and in other desolate native settlements dotting Canada's north. Life in Davis Inlet is an economic dead end. Only a handful of natives hold jobs at the post office, school and nursing station. There is no industry except the impatient wait for welfare checks, ranging from $237 to $316 a month per family. As many as 20 people live crammed into a single unpainted clapboard dwelling. None of the 67 houses administered by the local Innu Council have running water...
...CANADA: Despair Among the Innu...
...characters are often left with nothing noteworthy to do. Again, this could be the intention, even the central focus of the Dream of the Red Spider, but the critical flatness and distance that can lift a farce above its banal and stereotypical underpinnings never surface. The author's despair and alienation are evident, but we are never given any reason for his whiny melancholia. It is a shame that the truly complex and harrowing aspects of life under a dictatorship are not examined in depth, for instance as in Ariel Dorfman's recent Death of the Maiden, instead of being...
...Stare bleakly at your thesis outline one more time. Experience fleeting moment of joy at thought that all your friends in Social Studies have dropped their theses, switched to Gov, and are now downing pitchers at the Grill. Realize you already are Gov. Moan in despair...