Word: despondencies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high priests of their own outworn political philosophy rather than to the people. Apparently they never learn anything, for just a few weeks ago they turned thumbs down on Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a man who could help lead the Republican Party out of its slough of despond, and a Harvard graduate who would probably disagree with your statement "that undergraduates are exposed to too much liberal thinking within the College...
...there was a damper on this mood of hope. Three sudden events-the make-up of the Russian delegation to San Francisco, the disclosure of the secret Yalta voting agreement, and the inter-Allied row over the Lublin Poles (see INTERNATIONAL)-had thrown official Washington into a slough of despond. In the State Department, there was open talk of postponing the San Francisco Conference. This mood would probably unkink itself, but San Francisco no longer seemed a foregone happy conclusion. The war was unmistakably being won. But what of the peace...
...characters are dangerously ordinary people, a farmer and his wife, their eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism...
...when such affairs ended, and the candidate, even if passed, was in a slough of despond over his showing, Mr. Kittredge, whose own vast strength was accompanied by mersy could pour out grace abounding upon the chief of sinners...
...Crimson potentialities is due to that intangible something called team morale. Working together, Captain Pren Willetts and Hodder have been trying all season to whip a little esprit de corps into an unusually listless squad, and at last the team the team is snapping out of the Slough of Despond which has handicapped it all year...