Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is pain? Everybody knows because everybody has suffered it, but nobody can tell anybody else. Dictionaries are hopeless.* The late Sir Charles Sherrington, who collected no fewer than 22 honorary doctorates for his brilliant researches in physiology, called pain "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." That may be fine for another physiologist, but it is no help to a man with a nail through his foot. Although pain is what drives most patients to a doctor, it is the symptom to which, all too often, doctors pay least attention. One good reason: it is the subject about...
...Jicarilla Apaches of northern New Mexico seemed destined for extinction. A once proud and unruly people that were among the last to be "pacified" by the white man, they had sunk into a hopeless depression. They watched apathetically while opportunists from outside exploited their land, were so riddled by disease that their number had dropped to less than 600. Then the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent energetic Chester Faris to take over as superintendent. Faris had a way of handling his new charges. "I always made it a rule," says he, "never to tell an Indian what...
...purists, each building-both outside and in-must have its own personality, but must also be in keeping with the traditions and atmosphere of its locale. One point, though, that's troubling quite a few businessmen wasn't covered in the story. All isn't hopeless for the company with the desire for the dramatic and utilitarian, but finds itself in what may be considered antiquated quarters. Just as Saarinen remodeled his Victorian farmhouse, so commercial outfits can face-lift their current quarters to get the operational advantages from today's "mature" modern without having...
...paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly hopeless one of stemming the Allied tide of bombers and fighters. Pampered "knights-of-the-air" with extra rations, flashy scarves and cock-of-the-walk manners, the pilots go up to drink the "black champagne" of death. Up in the "blue shell" of the sky with "the needles...
...suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso. It is pretty and sweet, but not too sweet. As the play begins, Pierrot (Kelly) appears in his baggy white costume to open the program of a teatro circo, an Italian traveling circus. With the stilted gestures of mimetic tradition, he tells of his hopeless love for the leading lady of the troupe (Sombert), hopeless because she loves the daring aerialist (Youskevitch...