Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
...last week fast approached its end. For President Roosevelt ordered the 750 men of the Fourth U.S. Marines to depart. That order said very simply that war between Japan and the U.S. was very close. An order to stay might mean death to the Marines fighting against hopeless odds. The order to depart meant death for the International Settlement...
...continent is the only way a Crush Hitler policy can be effected, yet though this is our declared aim, the possibilities of a successful AEF are openly discussed by no national leaders. The facts that relate to it are by no means encouraging. To me they look hopeless, and because of that, I think the defeat of Hitler and restoration of a lasting peace must be approached in a different way. The facts that bring me to this conclusion are: 1. the failure of Hitler to invade England over 22 miles of water, 2. the failure of the large...
...writing it because I am mad, as most everyone else is mad, that we should be doing something that clearly doesn't help us achieve our aims, and that we clearly don't want to do. I am mad because we are blind, because we don't realize the hopeless contradictions between our ideals and our action's because we don't test our beliefs on the basis of things we know, because we are apathetic and helpless when we should be clear minded and strong...
...sort of author's curse at his own foredoomed failure to convey all he feels. Conventional acceptance of his book would be "the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again." His real aim is to enforce the realization that the Gudgers, the Ricketts and the Woods, whose hopeless, subhuman lives he reverently exposes, are now alive, human brothers of the reader, sharers of "certain normal predicaments of human divinity...