Word: despairingly
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...have come to rule the township with a mixture of brutality and bold authority that both fascinates and frightens their elders. These junior enforcers have capitalized on their legacy as the heirs of the martyred youths who led last June's upheaval, and on a general sense of despair and futility within the urban community. "We may still be children," one of their leaders says, "but politically we have been through very much." The Children are now seeing to it that almost everyone else in Soweto follows their lead...
There are not three Jarndyces left upon the. earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court...
...important and protest? Or just take a stand and be quiet? Or, simply, how many of us consider any moral issue to be important? Jonathan Ratner is right in that students feel impotent in face of Harvard's institutional immobility and that we can only overcome our "politics of despair" by daring to try. But who will? --Federico Salas...
...dupe, that's what I am, thought Shapiro in despair. A dope. Therere was a hundred dollar bill on the plate also, which to his credit Shapiro did not pick up. It wasn't even my line, he told himself, Herman J. Mankiewicz said it. He32Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...
...students who, after all, are the essential reasons for the University's existence. Quite sadly, the Harvard Corporation members may well believe this, and they may be right. But one can never be sure that Harvard is this powerful, and that our sense of impotence--our Harvard politics of despair--is justified? We can only find out by daring to try, daring to test Harvard's stubborn and misplaced resolve...