Word: hopelessness
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Snow did get the feeling, however, from many of the Chinese to whom he talked, that the reasons for much of the discipline and sacrifice of personal liberty were pretty well understood and accepted by the population. Chinese who remember the old days of hopeless poverty can now see, from year to year the material results of their sacrifice, though they cannot yet enjoy them...
...establish any bargaining position, Howell will once again have to close all the mines in Floyd County. This may not prove easy. Men now working for about $15 dollars a day are afraid that joining a strike will endanger their jobs, and others feel the situation is hopeless. Bernard Howell, president of the UMW local, is one of the men with the later view. Although he worked with Lee to organize the wildcat pickets last fall "because our union let us down," he now thinks it impossible to support another non-union strike. Even if money for a strike could...
...some obviously outstanding--or obviously hopeless--candidates, two readings are enough, and approval or rejection by the Committee is automatic. But the majority are in-between cases--the kind which cause a dean of admissions to throw up his hands in despair...
Chess & Counterspies. Labyrinth takes place in a murky sort of mahogany Marienbad. Endless corridors and countless doors make the plight of a bridegroom who has lost his key and forgotten his room number on his wedding night seem hopeless indeed. As he and his bride flounder around with understandable impatience, a series of personages appear, each bearing-according to Menotti-a strong allegorical identity. An old man in a wheelchair, who represents The Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab...
...Agamemnon is first of three plays, the Oresteia ("about Orestes"), which form the only trilogy that has survived to us from Greek drama. Beginning in a hopeless hereditary blood feud, it ends in an orderly court of law. From Force to Persuasion, this trilogy has been declared to be one of the supreme achievements of man in his thus-far residence on this planet. Although approached by Sophocles, Euripides, and Shakespeare, the Agamemnon, even considered alone; has never been surpassed...