Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...hopeless cause of world peace found no sympathizers, however, with one ancient biblic title page addressed to "three great war lords." The appeal, sandwiched between the prophecy of Micah IV:3 and beginning "they shall beat their swords into plowshares" was not addressed to Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, and Clement Attlee, but "Your Majesties George William, and Nicholas" in the year...
...town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...
With Hutson in his prime, things looked hopeless for Harry, but then starting right end Milt Gantenbein retired to a more quiet life and Jacunski was shifted to fill the hole...
...their ghost school a month each year, the Mount Washington school board avoids paying the bills for the three local pupils at Hillsdale. But Mount Washington's parents are up in arms: they say they are paying twice for their children's schooling. Their case is pretty hopeless: the majority of Mount Washington's taxpayers have no children in school...