Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Religion. "Dependency and insecurity are central elements in ... his neurosis." Freud was "deeply in need of motherly love, admiration and protection, full of self-confidence when these are bestowed on him, depressed and hopeless when they are missing. This insecurity, both emotional and material, makes him seek to control others who depend on him, so that he can depend on them...
...many such teen-agers in the bleak reaches of upper Manhattan's slums, high school is a waste of time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years...
...project's ultimate goal is to find college candidates among once-hopeless students. It is a long, uphill fight. Of 148 students in the experiment's first class at Junior High School 43, only 38 were able to pass all their courses after they went on to George Washington in 1957. Without the experiment's hand-tailored education, perhaps five could have expected to pass...
...Weygand looked like a little rat in a trap -caught. Petain looked like a great old image. Darlan trying to show the bluff sailor. And the politicians snatching at everything. I thought they were a hopeless...
...Henry IV of Germany waiting barefoot in the snow for three days and established the spiritual authority of the church over the temporal power of monarchs. And no schismatic efforts of the Chinese Communists to divide Chinese Catholics from the church in Rome could result in a more apparently hopeless tangle than the Schism of 1378, which reached a climax with three competing Popes.* three Colleges of Cardinals, three sets of bishops, priests and tax collectors...