Word: despairing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...believe we're being fooled in this economy. The gap is widening between the skilled and the unskilled. In Chicago I was surprised to learn that in certain inner-city communities, the unemployment rate is as high as 15%. In these areas you see a lot of despair, a lot of hopelessness, and I think it's because the economy is changing from a muscles-and-brawn type of economy to one that requires a lot more education...
...name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion comes every inspiration, from contemplation (Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers") to adventure (Hemingway's stories) to despair. The poet John Berryman looked down into the Mississippi and jumped to his death. The river is expanse, but it is also loneliness; Huck finds a loving relationship with Jim, but he is alone in his moral predicament. The American rivers show us a country equally capable of generosity and advancement...
...warm-weather boost. More critically, the sharp rise in stocks looks suspiciously like a bear-trap rally, the kind that draws money from the sidelines as investors worry lest they miss out on a new bull market. Alas, these bounces, called suckers' rallies, prove short-lived and end in despair. Money drawn in near the top vanishes amid new lows on the major averages...
...example of the genre here is a fabulous piece of kitsch by Paul Jamin, Brennus and his Loot, 1893, showing a barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This is archaeology with...
...than 2,000 American teenagers who end their lives each year, these are the signs of impending disaster. The suicide rate for adolescents has more than doubled since the 1960s. So the challenge for parents is to be able to tell the difference between normal teen angst and terminal despair...