Word: hopelessness
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When Manhattan's great Memorial Hospital for Cancer & Allied Diseases was founded in 1884, cancer was not only hopeless but unmentionable. Memorial Hospital was the first institution in the U. S. to devote itself solely to the study and treatment of cancer. In 1926 Edward S. Harkness donated $250,000 for cancer research. The hospital was able to introduce treatment by large amounts of radium at a distance (tele-radium therapy). "Up to that time," says Dr. James Ewing, Memorial's grand old man of oncology, "the hospital had enjoyed the studied neglect of the public, while...
...dogfight in Denver." Neither Buranelli, who used to be a puzzle editor and feature writer on the Sunday World, nor Sherwin, onetime dramatic critic for the New York Globe, is as cheery in out look as Thomas sounds. Buranelli is convinced that the modern world is almost hopeless, would like to return to the Mid dle Ages. Sherwin, less optimistic, believes that mankind is doomed. While Sherwin's stint for Thomas is confined to writing two programs a week, Buranelli not only writes radio scripts, .but puts together Thomas' commentary for the Fox Movietone News and travelogue narratives...
...which class arrogance on both sides of the fence is bad form. It has its poverty, but its freedom to discuss and to limit the rights of private property "gives even the most acutely underprivileged groups-Marx's proletariat-a sense that their case is not hopeless." It has its scandals and tragedies-Charley Cross, Emporia's leading banker, got his bank in difficulties in 1898 and rode to his farm on the edge of town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when he rode down Commercial Street for the last time." It has its twisted...
Rose of the Sea, winner of the Prix Femina for 1939, is about a worn-out ship. At less than seven knots she won't steer; at seven, every plate groans and every loose object "strolls." She is a hopeless, unsalable piece of property, and no one knows it better than her owners, hard-boiled Jerome Jardeheu and his noisome Uncle Romain...
...opus when presented in the U. S.. Thunder Rock was playing last week to sellout houses, at the large Globe Theatre. Nerve-frayed British playgoers, sick of revues and musical comedies, found a tonic in Ardrey's proposition that times are never so tough as to be hopeless. Sample of the dialogue that stirs the British: "Stick to your guns, for God's sake, stick to your guns! Men live among you today who will be the leaders you despair of finding!" Better played by Michael Redgrave in London than it was by Luther Adler...