Word: despond
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JAMES FORRESTAL, by Arnold A. Rogow. Except for some weirdly psychoanalytical conclusions, this is a careful biography of the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense, a brilliant, mercurial man whose drive and ambition were limitless but whose Irish soul floundered in despond...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These touching letters follow the novelist from the peak of precocious success in the '20s to the slough of final despond in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and saw his best work scorned...
...From its slough of despond, TIME confesses it had Legendary Logger Paul Bunyan in mind...
...Nick through school and university, and have looked fixedly at English high life and business. The current episode concerns that curious interbellum miscegenation between Society and the Arts dealt with so brilliantly in the satiric masterpiece of Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God. Its period is that Slough of Despond known as the Late Thirties, and nowhere else has the moral despair of that time been better described. It calls to mind the philosophical conundrum: "If a man tossing a coin to a one-eyed beggar blinds his good eye, is his action praiseworthy...
...There will be plenty of pitfalls on our pilgrimage, plenty of Sloughs of Despond and some Mr. Fainthearts," said Britain's Harold Macmillan in a speech last week in Scotland, but he was determined to press on to the summit. There were also many skeptics who doubted that any meeting with Khrushchev, Gromyko & Co. would ever lead to the House Beautiful, the Delectable Mountain and the Enchanted Ground...