Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Germans are perhaps the greatest danger. They are restless, hopeless, see themselves and their country without a future. Many follow single-mindedly the vision of a day when they will be called to arms again by either east or west. One put it thus: "I don't care which side it will be; I'll go with either one. I see myself again, running along beside our tanks, waving my men onward, marching, fighting, advancing -eastward or westward, I don't care, but fighting in a war which will make Germany great again...
Into the Nerves. Might a brain injection of this solution revive a dying patient with low blood pressure, weak pulse and feeble breathing? During World War II, Dr. Stern gave brain injections to shock victims given up for dead. The treatment was a dramatic success: of the first 383 "hopeless" cases, 302 recovered. By war's end, the treatment was standard in many Soviet hospitals...
...doctor. The organization has no officers, no dues, no big funds (its small Manhattan headquarters last year spent only $35,000, donated by members). Pledged to help other alcoholics, members do little proselyting, help only when they are called on. Before A.A., all but 5% of alcoholics were considered hopeless. Of A.A.'s members, some 50% never touch a drop after they join; 25% get on the wagon after one or two slips...
...British position was desperate, even impossible-on paper; but in practical terms it was far from hopeless...
...affairs of the world at present seem to be in a hopeless jumble, but if well-informed persons study them long enough, an understandable pattern is bound to appear. Authoritative information, however, is a prerequisite to this, and magazines like TIME and institutions like the Cleveland Council on World Affairs are indispensable...