Word: hopelessness
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Three times during the course of the marathon negotiations, U.S. officials disclosed, the shuttle talks wobbled on the verge of collapse. The first occasion was on Saturday, May 18, when Kissinger was attempting to work out lines of disengagement. Momentarily convinced that the task was hopeless, he ordered his entourage of 62 aides, security men and newspeople to board the U.S. Air Force Boeing 707 in preparation for a flight from Jerusalem to Cairo. But the Secretary flew back by way of Damascus for one final talk with Assad, who suddenly agreed to Kissinger's "blue line" demarking the cease...
...visciousness of Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice, or the pretentiousness of Eugenia Collier in the Sunday Times two weeks ago. Sarris attacked what he called "UNESCO-inclined critics," proclaiming that those who like Conrack (and other more-or-less "message" movies, including Sounder and Hoa Binh) are hopeless much-headed idealists, overwhelmed by uplift. But the critics Mad Andrew wrote about are figments of his imagination, since the only famous critics who praised the film (Kael and Kauffmann) are rigorous, not at all the "melting marsh-mallows" of his bile-ridden column. Sarris took potshots at the actual Conroy...
...hopeless cause. Even if God issued an environmental statement there would be someone to complain," he said...
Empyrean Love. Oxford, says Jan, saved James from madness by instilling in him an attitude of tolerance and self-amusement. But in his 20s, James' secret sense of anguishing incompleteness seemed hopeless. The doctors whom he saw blithely suggested that he wear gayer clothes, or bluffly urged him to "soldier on for a lifetime" as a male. Then he met Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a Ceylon tea planter...
...diplomat. Jill Abramson vamps madly in her part as the inane and brainless ingenue, but her squeaky voice, exaggerated walk, and batting eyes quickly become tiresome. Joanna Blum is convincing as the sophisticated woman-about-town who tries (to no avail) to pull the Bliss family out of their hopeless theatrics. She, like Abramson, has a formula of winking eyes and sleek walk which loses its charm after repeated usage...