Word: despairingly
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...will forget Allard's finest hour--his brilliant dismantling of Yale in the most lopsided Game in history. And fewer still will forget the infamous slapshot from the blue line--the Fusco trademark that in four years brought the men's hockey squad from the depths of despair and into national prominence...
...some of the least hospitable parts of our nation. The internees were subject to overcrowding, housing in horse stalls and tarpaper shacks, gross lack of privacy, poor sanitation and inadequate food. Dozens of internees were shot and wounded by the armed guards, some committed suicide out of over-whelming despair, and many more died prematurely due to the inadequate medical facilities and the harsh environment. These are just some of the well-documented facts, and fall short of doing justice to describing the magnitude of the internees' ordeal. And as the recent hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation...
...agree. Secondary School Teacher Christine Bury, 28, of Wilmslow in Cheshire is uncomfortable with the government's unemployment policies. "I have seen lots of students leave school with no work," she notes. "One of our fathers attempted suicide in his despair over unemployment. We are working to teach children to qualify for jobs that aren't there any more. That's the reality...
...year-old Italian hero, Lucio, is headed for Capri on holiday in 1934, the fateful year that was Mussolini's twelfth in power and Hitler's first. On the boat from Naples to the island, the young anti-Fascist asks himself: "Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?" At that moment his eyes lock with those of a German tourist, a teen-age girl who transfixes him with a pleading, desperate look. Lightning strikes. The girl, Beate, is accompanied by a husband as wickedly repellent as a German sketched by George Grosz. Beate...
Werther's suicide for the love of Lotte inspired an epidemic of self-immolation in Germany in the 1770s, but history does not repeat itself in Lucio. True, he is in despair-life in Fascist Italy is intolerable and Beate refuses to sleep with him-but he is seeking ways to survive. Beate, on the other hand, wants to "carry despair to its logical conclusion, suicide." Their encounter, Lucio observes, had not been love, but death at first sight. Beate yearns for a suicide pact with Lucio that would be modeled on what she regards as an ideal death...