Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign for the middle class seems to have left out the most needy. Aside from suggestions such as those from Republican Patrick J. Buchanan to sweep streets clean of the homeless and lock them up in jails across the country, little mention is made of the very poor and hopeless...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...that problem is solved. The Crimson is no longer a hopeless 0-11. Harvard has finally burst through into the win column...
Only one presidential candidate would dare to stump for votes at a convention of crystal-worshipping New Agers in Los Angeles. Prowling the stage with a hand mike like a stand-up crooner, Jerry Brown trumpets his current theme about the hopeless corruption of the political system, then offers his audience more specialized wares. He cites Buckminster Fuller's appeal for a fundamental "design change" of society. To loud applause from the assembled acolytes of acupuncture, psychoshamanism and touch therapy, he declares that any vast health-care reform "should also recognize alternative healing modalities." The custom-tailored sermon, delivered with...
...loss, Brown went into exile, studying Buddhism in Japan and working with Mother Teresa in India. The experiences, says Brown, "gave me distance on the whole business of power and ambition. With Mother Teresa there was so much openness and joy in the midst of what appeared to be hopeless situations. I believe what is missing from politics is that sense of joy, service and integrity...