Word: despondency
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...might go beyond negation, beyond futilitarianism, beyond disgust with life as it is, to discover, and use as a horizon, life as it might be. "Come in at the Door" is a novel well worth reading--even reading twice. If March can lift himself from the slough of despond and find direction, his next novel will be a more meaning contribution
...path of the resistless advance of a great people-125,000,000 strong-united by suffering in a common purpose, by mutual sacrifice and cooperation and under the inspiring leadership of a great captain of humanity, to march out of the deep, dark valley of death and despond, into the sunshine of a new and better day which has already gilded their brows with the light of dawning confidence, faith and hope, for the first time in four years...
...Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...
...Laying aside its aloofness, Phi Beta Kappa aligns itself with those who are seeking to lead the world out of its slough of despond. For the first time in 150 years this erudite?some even call it snobbish? society of college and university intellectuals faces the world with a declaration...
...Weary of earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...