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...miserable in the streets of Harlem. "There are certain kinds of emotional pain that make me feel horrible," Shange told TIME's Jean Vallely. "I ache. I feel like I have these terrible hot rods in my arm. When I'm in that particular pain and despair I don't have any hope, any sense of the morning. I want to get out of my body. Like in my poem, which says I want to jump right out of my bones and be done with myself. I meant that literally. Death could not be worse...
...harassed recruit at San Diego was driven to such despair that he threatened suicide. The drill instructor obligingly instructed him on how to slash his wrists. The recruit's wounds, fortunately, were superficial...
...then Gray Flannel owed its vogue to the fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking the way Tom was. Presumably they must have liked the novel's reassuring answer, which is, more or less, cherish your wife, vote yes on school bond issues, and existential despair will stay away from your door...
...Divine in New York City, also Episcopal, is much further from completion. Begun in 1892, it still lacks three towers and two transepts. In 1967 then Bishop Horace Donegan decreed that the building, which stands on Amsterdam Avenue at the edge of Harlem, would remain unfinished until "the despair and anguish of our disadvantaged people have been relieved." The present bishop, Paul Moore Jr., however, thinks that the cathedral should be finished, and he may launch a fund-raising effort...
However that may be, Washington was clearly a man of passion who was deeply disappointed in love, a tireless leader subject to profound fits of despair, a father figure who adored children but never had any of his own. He possessed extraordinary skill at getting what he wanted by wanting only what seemed good for the country. Like nearly every Washington biographer, Cunliffe compares the man's virtues to those of ancient Rome: "As for ambition-gloria -it is conceived as a civic impulse, not a private torment ... Washington's desire to be well thought...