Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
...schoolchildren will be asked to stay after school on ten Friday afternoons this winter but it will not be to clean blackboards or copy promises of good behavior. Their task has been allotted them by Conductor Leopold Stokowski who, finding it difficult "to give the hopeless generation new ideas," declared last week that he would try to make children like modernistic music by having them listen to his broadcasts...
...drive was difficult to make because the electorate, battered by hard times, seemed in no mood to be sweetly reasoned out of its grouch against the Administration. Most Republican managers, despite their required official optimism, admitted off the record that the party had on its hands an ominous, perhaps hopeless fight...
...much modern stuff is so bitter, so hopeless." explained Isamu Noguchi. "To me, at least. Miss Expanding Universe is full of hope...
...sensitive, spoiled child, morbidly dependent on his mother. He grows older, spends vacations in the country town of Combray, the seaside at Balbec, falls in love with little Gilberte Swann. The story of M. Swann's hopeless love affair with Odette is introduced. Later the narrator takes up with Albertine, is desperately unhappy with her?among other reasons, because he suspects her of Lesbian tendencies. She runs away from him and is killed in an accident. During the War the narrator takes refuge in a sanitarium, emerges to find his social world tottering, aged, ready for death...