Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said an Indian government official: "The men who defend polyandry are fighting a hopeless battle. Women always have the last word everywhere...
...worse, the hangover from it six hours ago-these all make the [male] as . . . ineffectual as[he] is ever likely to be In addition, the lore of the honeymoon-the vast repertory of awful jokes, none dignified-may be added to the anxiety ... At best there may be a hopeless anxious fumbling effort, certain to complete the rout of a tense, frightened ashamed and embarrassed girl. . . Indeed it almost seems wonderful that any marriages have ever survived...
...rope, finally make him aware that he's hanging himself." The one essential that all Elliott inmates have in common is their tendency to act out antisocial behavior which most people express in words, or repress within themselves. "Acting-out" problem cases have been regarded as almost hopeless, but Grant believes he has found a way to treat them: keep the subject concerned about and facing his problems. In bull sessions, with a Marine sergeant in charge, all members of the group are encouraged to talk out their problems. Even their juvenile bragging is often highly informative...
Ritual Orgies. Fitzgerald married Zelda on the $5,000 advance royalties of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they set off on a mad fling that was to span the decade, cover a couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual...
Resistance. Ryther was the natural place to turn for help. Founded in 1935 and developed into a treatment center by Lillian Johnson, a career social worker who is now executive director, it has scorned stuffy precedents, snatched many a "hopeless" case from the door of a state school or mental institution by entering difficult areas of child therapy. Its formula : a combination of dedicated social workers, psychoanalysts and house staffers giving treatment in an informal but disciplined family atmosphere (there are no bars or locks at Ryther). The center has become the model for 20 other residential-type child treatment...