Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels its tensions. These powerful effects are achieved without off-focus blurs, mad music, or tilting rooms, but with fine direction and expert acting. The one photographic trick is used in picturing the writhing mass of hopeless minds struggling at the bottom...
...unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant, narrow, unimaginative-the victim of his own frozen will...
Says soft-spoken Dr. Penfield: "It is our task to accept the most desperate sufferers whether they come from farm, mine, factory, city, street, the home, or from other hospitals. We undertake apparently hopeless cases referred to us by doctors everywhere...
Nanking's mood fluctuated sharply with every report from the front. Early in the week hungry, hopeless mobs looted 50 rice shops whose owners refused to accept paper currency. From the police station just opposite one shop, a few white-helmeted guardians of law and order watched without interfering. "What shall we do?" asked one. "The government must not stand in the way of its hungry people...
...pleaded for a peaceful settlement and prepared to localize the conflict as best it could. Mediators were dispatched with various partition plans, but these were hopeless, impossible plans and were speedily rejected. To make the rejection more emphatic, Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by a group of ill-advised and lawless Irgunists. But last week the Holy War seemed to be dying a natural death, a death hastened by the force of Jewish arms. David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, announced peace overtures from two of the principal Arab states, Egypt and Trans-Jordan. The question is whether...