Word: hopelessly
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...Hopeless Desert. Charlotte Salomon wrote those words when she was 25, and though she assigned them to her grandmother, they were her words. Each of the 80 paintings in her diary of despair echoes them-first with innocent uncertainty, then with primitive clarity, finally with resignation. Older than Anne Frank but, like her, a German, a Jew, and doomed to die, she recounts her life as a string of fatal instants that flash past like dagger thrusts...
...paintings were done in the garden of a retreat in Villefranche, where she fled at 21 to live with her exiled grandparents when the Nazi persecution of the Jews began closing in. From this oasis she clearly saw the hopeless desert around her. She painted her lost world in the palette of Provence, but as she turned in upon herself, her colors darkened with her thoughts. And with her shattering gift for picturing her emotions, her style swerved back and forth to the radical reaches of determination and despair...
...Mahler long before they had gained popular acceptance, tolerating Debussy's monumental ego ("There have been produced so far in this world two great musicians," Debussy once told him, "Beethoven and me."), encouraging timid players such as Edvard Grieg, whose embarrassment at the keyboard often reduced him to hopeless laughter. In the years before the vogue of the phonograph silenced his studios, Welte's legacy included performances by more than 100 pianists and composers...
...self-absorbed that when he briefly becomes "converted," he seems to think he cannot belong to the Christian religion without becoming the Principal Person? Kops goes barefoot about London, later is seen carrying a big wooden crucifix he has carved himself. It seems like a hopeless case. Kops, as he says himself, "cannot cope with the human race." Inevitably the crackup comes. First it is "greengage" (marijuana), then "the loony-bin" at Belmont...
...reader will agree with Kops that it is a miracle he ever got out, kicked the habit, and lived to tell his terrible tall tale. The secret seems to be that in the end Kops found and loved someone so hopeless that she had to lean on him. Thus, at last Kops learned to cope...