Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which class arrogance on both sides of the fence is bad form. It has its poverty, but its freedom to discuss and to limit the rights of private property "gives even the most acutely underprivileged groups-Marx's proletariat-a sense that their case is not hopeless." It has its scandals and tragedies-Charley Cross, Emporia's leading banker, got his bank in difficulties in 1898 and rode to his farm on the edge of town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when he rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted...
Rose of the Sea, winner of the Prix Femina for 1939, is about a worn-out ship. At less than seven knots she won't steer; at seven, every plate groans and every loose object "strolls." She is a hopeless, unsalable piece of property, and no one knows it better than her owners, hard-boiled Jerome Jardeheu and his noisome Uncle Romain...
...opus when presented in the U. S.. Thunder Rock was playing last week to sellout houses, at the large Globe Theatre. Nerve-frayed British playgoers, sick of revues and musical comedies, found a tonic in Ardrey's proposition that times are never so tough as to be hopeless. Sample of the dialogue that stirs the British: "Stick to your guns, for God's sake, stick to your guns! Men live among you today who will be the leaders you despair of finding!" Better played by Michael Redgrave in London than it was by Luther Adler...
...people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared but I am confident that it is not a hopeless situation." These were some of the plainest words to which the public had been treated by men in responsible positions. The commit tees, whether or not they agreed with everything Colonel Stimson and Colonel Knox said, approved the appointments 14-10-3 and 9-10-5 respectively...
...strengthening of our democratic system and for powerful de fense against the bloodthirsty brutalitarians. . . . Equally important and equally indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people. We must bring to them a message of hope, rekindle their faith, inspire them with fortitude and courage...