Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life passionately and sees it as a tragedy. Says he, in the prologue to Three Exemplary Novels: "I believe the curve of the hyperbole strives - just so! to join with its asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary...
...Adamses wrote voluminously, but not till the fourth generation found writing the only public career left open to them. Henry Adams wanted to influence politics by his pen. He found it an endless, hopeless task. His most famed book, The Education of Henry Adams, was published posthumously (1918). Long out of_political power, the Adamses are still in the public eye. "Today a third Charles Francis, the son of John Quincy's grandson John Quincy, is head of the family. A Harvard graduate, like all of his family since John; for 30 years treasurer of the University; a lawyer...
...advancement. How was it possible to prevent their being disappointed? It was obvious that neither the History of Art nor Biology B offered a particularly sound training for the acquisition of "success," and dreadful stories about Ph.D.'s found driving streetcars in after life went the rounds, in a hopeless attempt to quench youth's unquenchable enthusiasm for doing the popular and conventional thing...
...sides by the fact that they represent only one of the three elements affecting the situation. To reach any definite and beneficial solution they must join hands with the colleges and the Board of Entrance Examiners. Until all three act at once and in accord, it is hopeless to expect any improvement, for the interrelation that exists among three forces makes it impossible for one to move without the other. It is not within the ability of the CRIMSON to discuss the relative merits of various plans for the solution of this problem, but it can point out that...
Last week a death watch was taken up before a red brick house on Wyoming Avenue in Washington. Within lay William Howard Taft, 27th President of the U. S., tenth Chief Justice of the U. S. He was dying. For a week his physicians, hopeless of his recovery, waited for his passing at any hour. But against the inevitable end he made resolute resistance. His will-to-live was strong; his affected heart, weary from a lifetime of overwork, was feeble. As his life seemed to trickle away, citizens throughout the land held their breath in sorrowful anticipation...