Word: hopelessness
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...that no American will believe that a Lao can be trusted to perform well. And as long as there are Americans around to "help out," to give the natives the benefit of their expertise, then Lao casualness will continue to be taken at face value, as a sign of hopeless incompetence...
...these symptoms are explained, Psychiatrist Nicholi believes, by the patients' "tenuous masculine identification," often caused by difficult childhood relationships with demanding, critical and successful fathers. The sons felt it hopeless to try to be like them, and thus used their motorcycles to compensate for feelings of effeminacy and weakness...
Some critics have considered the symbolic protest embodied in Campaign GM and other proxy fights to be a futile and clumsy type or melodrama. The guidelines can become a hopeless morass, as they did last year at Princeton. The Malkiel Report tried to evaluate the school's investments in companies operating in South Africa. This Princeton effort illustrates the complexity of drawing up moral criteria to judge the different ranges of financial involvement in South Africa. Directly or indirectly, the committee found, almost every company in the portfolio was contaminated-companies which had affiliates or subsidiaries operating in South Africa...
...shift in government policy appears to have been caused by friendly persuasion. The U.S. has decided that "rectification" of the Egyptian missile violations is hopeless. As an antidote to missiles, Washington is beefing up the Israeli air force and providing Mrs. Meir with additional economic aid. This provides an atmosphere in which Israel can return to the Jarring talks before the second 90-day cease-fire expires...
...statement of many a Supreme Court decision, are morally compelling, because of the lore and logic cited to support them. Beyond its direct application to Viet Nam, the book is a remarkable historic study of a line of social thought that many readers will begin by regarding as hopeless and legalistic, and end by admiring profoundly...