Word: despairingly
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...engaging in Yellen's witless but stubbornly persistent banter. He gets to be boyish and lewd and folksy, to plead and be charmingly self-deprecating, to do lots of nightclub imitations (accents were Lewis's specialty), to get drunk and be irrepressibly untactful, exposing the hypocrisy of others, to despair and age and writhe in agony. Dern does well, especially considering he's been off stage for 19 years, but the quality that makes him special, that sometimes seems too intense for the big screen, is imperceptible on stage. You'd think that his body and features would be sufficiently...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
...knew they were taking "meds" because they were different from "normies"; yet when they tried to be normal by refusing medication, their behavior often became more bizarre. Estroff herself tried Prolixin to experience its effects, but quit abruptly after six weeks of tremors, only to plummet into near-suicidal despair. Said she: "It was the closest I ever got to being crazy, and the closest I want...
...Education where he has been studying people working for their Doctorates of Education. This year's diary thus contains notes and sketches from his interviews with doctoral candidates. Goodfriend seeks to learn why and how people obtain Ed. D.s, and perhaps thereby to explain his sense of "disillusionment and despair" about the educational process. "The assumption is that people who come out of a prestigious school like Harvard have some impact on the educational system," he says, but cautions that although his paper may help identify some of the problems of the educational system, "any optimism is totally futile, because...
...easy, ironic comment about the lives that inhabit his terrain, but he lacks a comparable interest in or understanding of those lives. The detachment with which Hopper painted people and their frequent absence in his work comes out of, and produces, a powerfully unsentimental sense of isolation, loneliness, despair, carried within the landscapes' inscrutable hard-lit beauty. The distance from which people are seen in Meyerowitz's work, and their frequent absence, arises, presumably, from the slow view camera's inability to photograph near or unposed figures without messily slurring them, and from Meyerowitz's inclination to see people...