Word: hopelessness
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Such characteristically gay and hopeless verses are likely to make plain readers suspect that Williams has more up his sleeve than his poems express. Dr. Williams invites this suspicion by using a new-fangled code to express a primitive notion of beauty. For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster...
When 13-year-old Clara Howard of Washington. D. C. emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire, the flames leaped up, licked her neck and sides. After weeks of painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner...
...Hope is not in its characterizations but in the graphic intensity of isolated scenes. A bomber emerging into calm moonlight after blowing up the gasworks at Talavera de la Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished procession stretching through vast ravines like...
...should look hopeless for Captain Green and his men, but it just doesn't. In the first place, there is no question that the Crimson team has pointed for this clash ever since the opening bell on September 9. Their offense has improved steadily from Brown through Cornell and Army, and their defense has fallen down only on the "break" variety of touchdowns...
...broadcast tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy said: "As soldier and as Premier ... I am passing through the saddest moment of my life, for I am fulfilling a most painful duty, a duty which for me is worse than death. . . . We were confronted with a choice between desperate and hopeless defense, which would have meant the sacrifice of our whole younger generation, their children and their wives, and acceptance of the conditions imposed on us under pressure and without war, which in their mercilessness are unexampled in history. There are smaller states than ours that lead healthy existences. . . . We shall...