Word: hopelessness
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Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous...
...members giddy with excitement over re-enacting The Story of Elian, but also Senate majority leader Trent Lott and Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. Undeterred by George W. Bush's lack of enthusiasm for such partisan theatrics, Lott boasted he would get to the bottom of where the obviously hopeless negotiations stood at the time of the dawn raid. And House majority whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's "jackbooted thugs." He was far more publicly incensed by U.S. marshals using guns to forestall the threatened violence of the Miami crowd than he ever was over guns used...
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) called on "the privileged few," students and faculty at Harvard Law School (HLS), to "ensure hope for the hopeless" during a keynote speech Friday for a two-day symposium on negotiation...
...hire Harvard students. They sought students for both technical and business positions. The terms? $400,000 dollars over two years, plus a brand new BMW. The first thing I did upon seeing this advertisement was to send off a rsum. The second was to shake my head in hopeless bewilderment...
...washed up as their poster boy. Millionaire chairman Jorge Mas denies the lobby is using Elian: "Our mission is to ensure that this boy gets his due process of law." But he adds, "We want to provoke Castro as long as we can, to make the world see the hopeless reality of repression in Cuba...