Word: despairs
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It’s a bittersweet story. Viewers can expect to come out of the exhibit with conflicting emotions, ranging from rage to despair to hope. Organized by Myrna Balk, a Boston artist and social worker, the show features drawings by Nepalese women, as well as etchings and photographs by Balk that chronicle her experiences in Nepal and the social issues she faced during her time there...
...Neither side today has much faith in the other's desire for peace, but neither side wants to be seen to be the spoiler of Zinni's mission. The despair on both sides may, in fact, provide the best hopes for Zinni's success. Still, after the vicious bloodletting of the past two weeks, it may take more than one Marine to keep the peace in the Middle East...
Most great comics are to some extent manic-depressive, but Spike was an extreme case, swinging between certifiable despair and a spate of creativity that threatened to sweep him away. He once said he would sacrifice everything for mental peace. Had he done so we would have been the poorer...
...familiar but Matthiessen and his fellow "craniacs" remain undaunted. His book, like his life, is a tribute to the fight against the destruction of nature and, in a deeper sense, the personal struggle with what the naturalist Louis Crisler called the inextricable link between "love [of the earth] and despair...
...documentary firmly “rooted in the 20th century, Kerouac’s century,” says Sharples, and captures the intellectual struggles of a man trying to reconcile the “naïve and hopeful” with “bouts of existential despair...