Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, with handsome Ralph Alswang sets and superb Motley costumes, has a fine storybook air, but no vibration as story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton...
...bill is stifling. Not only is New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. threatening to tack on again his kiss-of-death integration rider, but congressional budget-cutters are eying with whetted axes the $400 million that would be appropriated for school construction next year. Prognosis: poor, almost hopeless...
...Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz noted that Metesky, too unsound of mind to stand trial, is also dying of tuberculosis, committed him to a state hospital for the criminally insane. Said Leibowitz: "One would be less than human not to be sympathetically moved by this pitiful condition of this hopeless, incurable man-incurable both mentally and physically...
Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont last night asserted that reduction of President Eisenhower's budget is a "hopeless thing" until progress is made towards "the ending of national armaments...
...would, if necessary, stay until his term ended in 1959 and "the warden kicks me out." Corpier had a compelling reason for such a decision: if he could prepare his students to qualify for FCC licenses, they would surely find jobs once they got out. "It's pretty hopeless for them if nobody is willing to help," said he. "How can a man go straight if he can't find work...