Word: hopelessness
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...more he detests it. He attends Anna's public reading at the institute, hoping her stuff will sound better than it looks on the page. As he listens, he finds himself in tears: "Different from other work of hers -- yes! Bad in a new way! Worse than before! Hopeless! Useless! What on earth was to be done...
Artistically, Passion is one of the great turnarounds. During previews, it seemed hopeless. The obsessed woman struck spectators as akin to a stalker, too creepy to induce sympathy. Her unstinting devotion resembled emotional blackmail. The narrative, two hours without intermission, felt strained and wearisome. Many theatergoers fidgeted or tittered in the wrong places. (There aren't many right places to laugh in Passion, which makes no use of Sondheim's greatest gift -- a talent for writing intricate comic lyrics that fit the characters.) Sensing disaster, Sondheim and director-librettist James Lapine revamped the plot, recast a major role, picked...
...might equally, however, argue that the spirit of inclusion which characterised Mandela's acceptance of the South African presidency (and F.W. de Klerk's concession of the same position) provide a sharp contrast with the hopeless inadequacy of minority political representation in the United States. It is this second argument which is pointed out powerfully by the recent publication of Lani Guinier '71's collection of articles,The Tyranny of the Majority...
...haven't asked them about this. The whole situation is just too uncomfortable," Hughes Hallett said. But she added, "If I thought the situation was hopeless, I wouldn't come back...
Italian-American immigrants at the turn of the century were often beaten and called "just as bad as the Negroes." In 1875 The New York Times thought "it perhaps hopeless of civilizing [Italian-Americans], or keeping them in order, except by the arm of the law." Greeks were beaten and stereotyped as representatives of a lower species of human being. And Poles were called "animals...