Word: sisyphean
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...Determined Hanging. Much of Pascin's life was a Sisyphean search for satiation. He decorated his endless parties with nude girls, recalls one writer, "as one might place flowers in a vase." Under his perennial black derby, he was sensuously ugly, with heavy features that had the thick texture of Dromedary dates. As he began to age, his art more and more portrayed the image of an old man teased by willing sprites. Only fetishes could further inflame his nudes; lesbian poses and green stockings added a salacious veneer to his final fleshy visions...
...group. In Iran, for example, fully 95% of the suicides are in the Now Generation; in the U.S. nearly one in ten. More often, the flip-out is psychedelic. Acid-heads and pot smokers feel that they can ease the weight of the Sisyphean stone by drug use. "LSD is like Ban deodorant," says a University of Michigan acidhead. "Ban takes the worry out of being close; LSD takes the worry out of being." The National Student Association's Chuck Hollander, 27, who has written extensively on the subject, estimates that 20% of college students use drugs, ranging from...
...task to help solve these problems. "And even more important for the long run," he said, universities "must also continue to win victories on the battlefields of pure learning which are surely themselves to be numbered among the most convincing evidences of civilization. It is an exciting but Sisyphean task...
...Chinese counterpart. Gronouski's predecessor, John Cabot (who moved on as deputy commandant of the National War College in Washington), met 20 times with the Chinese, delivering fruitless warnings to Peking to stay out of India and Viet Nam. Now it is the former Postmaster General's Sisyphean job to deliver the messages...
Power & Glory. To run the metropolis-let alone build the City of Tomorrow-New Yorkers pay their mayor $50,000 a year. The job is a Sisyphean symphony in bureaucracy, chronic lists of incomplete projects, a populace crying 24 hours a day for the mayor's time. Many of its most worrisome aspects are out of the mayor's control. The most horrendous is the ever-lengthening welfare bill which will come to nearly half a billion dollars this year, and is rising at the annual rate of $75 million as more and more unskilled newcomers crowd into...