Word: hopelessness
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...inevitably run on at the mean level of intelligence of the men who make it up. As a result, the sections are usually designed for the C-man, acting as a ball-and-chain on the student fitted to go on at a brisker pace and leaving in a hopeless cloud of academic dust the E-man who cannot possibly keep up the pace...
...lumbering elementary courses alone, liberalization of the requirement should find further justification to the college at large as well as to the individual, if further justification were still necessary. Government 1, Chemistry A, Philosophy A, and others, now made up in large part of bored students drudging away in hopeless apathy, will in the future be composed of men who, having only themselves to thank for their presence, need be fed no intellectual pap, spoonful by spoonful. No less profit from the new Decalogue will accrue to the University by casting out courses like Biology A, which offer little sound...
...people are starving. . . . The only difference between the Democratic and Republican leaders is that the Democrats are skinny from the ankles up and the Republicans from the ears down." Griefstricken, he declared, "From the deception, false pledges and promise-breaking by politicians, it looks like it's almost hopeless to look for the American people to be relieved...
...Death Files East" is a thriller which improves as it progresses. Hollywood machinery creaks dismally and obviously in the beginning, but as passengers drop dead in the aisles of a transcontinental air liner and the race against time seems more and more hopeless, it is possible to arouse interest. The solution has twist much as an O. Henry short story and left us with a satisfied feeling. The Oriental, whose name we didn't get, was much too charming to be an international thief. The valuable papers were delivered to Washington into the safe hands of the Patent Office...
...Youth Movement had been proudly nonpolitical, but as its members came of age more & more of them felt the impossibility of staying out of politics. Lilo Linke joined the Young Democrats, plunged with her customary energy into the hopeless fight to stem the rising tide of Nazidom. She became secretary to Ernst Schwarz, a Jew high in the councils of the party, finally his sweetheart. But she soon saw the Democrats were getting nowhere. "Not for a moment did I consider turning Communist, but I knew that the truth must lie somewhere in that direction." She left the party, joined...