Word: hopelessness
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...Prince Charles has found lime for yet another avocation, that of literary critic. Writing for Punch, the satirical English weekly, Charles offers some regal praise for portly Comic Harry Secombe, veteran of Ihe BBC's Goon Show and author of the recently published Twice Brightly. Freely admitting his "hopeless bias" in Secombe's favor, the rookie reviewer disclosed to his readers that he "was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth al frequent intervals" over Secombe's novel. For his 635-word article, which was sent to Punch's office immaculately typed on Buckingham Palace stationery, Prince...
...gone into the ring to face a host of opponents, present and past, in an apparently hopeless cause. He was out for revenge against the boxing establishment that had summarily stripped him of his heavyweight title seven years ago for refusing to be drafted. He was fighting the skeptics who rated him a 3-to-1 underdog against Foreman, and the record of recent fights in which, aging and overweight, he had displayed only brief glimpses of his old speed and guile. He was also challenging boxing history; only one other heavyweight, Floyd Patterson, had ever won the championship twice...
Nostalgia is turning television into a vehicle for vehicles. Since most of the people who write and direct TV series have yet to create more than a handful of convincing contemporary Americans, it is probably hopeless to expect them to imagine realistically people contending with, or shaped by, antique historical forces-and easy to see why they so readily traffic in antique autos instead. It is so simple to take a picture of an old car going buckety-buckety across the screen, so hard to come honestly to grips with the way things were...
...Board President Albert Anson Jr., has already resigned in despair over the deadlock. Kenneth Underwood, the school superintendent, was so upset by death threats that he and his family occasionally moved into hiding. "It seems like you're on a runaway locomotive," he said. "It's a hopeless feeling-it's unreal." Underwood has announced that he will quit as soon as the board can hire a replacement. Furthermore, the 18-member committee appointed by the school board to review the texts is in chaos: at the first meeting, seven anti-book members resigned, declaring that they...
...patient is dying of cancer, but all of them are terminal cases. One is a hopeless alcoholic; another is drowning in a morbid, pervasive melancholia; still another, a boy of 19, has not only totaled his motorcycle but also his mind. Several are old, old men for whom life has become the cruelest possible bondage. The hospital can offer them everything except dignity...