Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raffish collector's item. While the edition is now no longer limited, the guiding theme undoubtedly is. Author Williams, 40, best known for his plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple, and on the human personality in states of hopeless, neurotic disrepair. One story, Portrait of a Girl in Glass, shines with a luminous pity that gives it a lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl, her aggressive mother and restless brother, Williams later fashioned The Glass Menagerie, and the story, like the play, is evocatively...
...convinced," wrote Arthur Garfield Hays, "that the struggle itself whether temporarily won or lost, is what counts. To press for some cause bigger than oneself, however hopeless it may seem, is not necessarily noble. It's just about the best fun there is in life for people of my disposition." Last week a heart attack put an end to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays's 73 years of fun and fighting. Among his mourners at a Manhattan funeral parlor were Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, champion of evolution and founder of the Euthanasia Society, Gambler Frank...
...charge of the original Singh funeral is in jail awaiting trial for making a pyre built for two. But every day and night, crowds of worshipers throng the death site with offerings that range from coconuts to gold plate, and from all sides the halt, the near hopeless and the blind hobble into the city, seeking miracles and willing to pay the holy men generously for bringing them about...
...course of Looking for open courts we came across at least ten others engaged in the same hopeless task. We would just be interested in knowing if we twelve are the only non-team players at Harvard who would enjoy a game of squash on Saturday. Peter Gross '58 David Tobey...
...write off Happy Medium as unoriginal in music, banal in book, and lackluster in lyrics would be a fair appraisal but it would not be much of a guide to the merits of the show, For Happy Medium, though sabotaged by hopeless material, survives on energy and exuberance alone. It survives at least far into the second act when the production does finally give up the ghost; by that time, however, there have been enough fresh performances and touches to overwhelm the playgoer into an affirmative judgment...