Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hospital in Bedford, Mass., Rose found from a survey that many relatives do not expect the hospital to effect a cure and really do not want it to-they regard it as a place of detention, not healing. They are more comfortable feeling that the case is hopeless: if the patient never improves, he can never be sent home where "there is no room" and the family's ranks have closed against...
...discontents and out-numbered conservatives had left early. Can't accomplish anything by singing about it. You can just confuse yourself. Solid citizens of the bourgeoisie singing union songs. Not even radical any more, just left-wing. Peace songs, brotherhood songs. Stop bomb tests? Hopeless idealism--may even be subversive. Can't stop them by singing anyway...
...Seoul, Korea, stands the village of New Chorwon, where some 500 people make a living from crops of potatoes, wheat, cabbage and barley. It is not an unusual village-except in being a village at all. Four years ago, the site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...last week Tibetans, hardy as any mountain people, forsook prudence and took the field in a seemingly hopeless, idealistic action that pitted an almost unarmed nation of a million people against the might and power of 650 million Red Chinese. Alone in the mountain-locked fastness of their native land, Tibetans-like the Hungarians before them in 1956-could expect to stir the sympathy of the free world, but they could hardly count on any real help from it. Red repression in Lhasa coulu be even more brutal than in Budapest-for who would know what had been done...
...meeting climaxed a winter of hopeless worry. With a school integration decision pending in federal district court, Atlantans were dead certain that the wool-hat state legislature's massive-resistance laws would lock all city schools next September. But HOPE took hold quickly; in three weeks businessmen were solicited for funds, and chapters were formed in Atlanta and seven other Georgia cities. At last week's rally Editor Meyer left no doubt that HOPE's members prefer at least token integration to locked schools. "This will be called surrender," he said. "I'm not afraid...