Word: hopelessness
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India's most pressing need today is for leaders with a more practical view point, because those who speak for India are hopeless visionaries, Ghandi and Nehru have become irrationally possessed, as only an Indian can, with the idea of complete independence for India, and their passion for the idea has blinded them to every practical aspect of their country's quest for freedom, the professor stated...
First, the bad weather, then the several postponements, and finally yesterday's Mil Sci drill made the meet a very haphazard affair. Drawing a picture of the team's future was well-nigh hopeless...
Nathan the Wise (adapted from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Ferdinand Bruckner; produced by Erwin Piscator). This famous plea for tolerance, which a wise Christian wrote 163 years ago about a wise Jew, is still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it was one of the first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them...
...terms, the British withdrawal made good sense: lacking the men, ships and planes for effective defense of the Andamans, General Sir Archibald Wavell had wisely chosen to save what he had for the coming Battle of India. It was a sign that the British were done with brave but hopeless sacrifices. It was also a sign of their military weakness in India...
Against this doom Geneviève Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record. To her hopeless struggle she brought a union sacrée of journalistic hysteria and a sense of history that made her acutely aware of all that was most ominous to France in the turmoil of her times. She crammed her daily column on international politics with facts. Sometimes they were staggering and momentarily effective. Sometimes they were merely melodramatic...