Word: despairingly
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...face seems to change with the chronological shifts in the movie, from the full-boned, clean-shaven, clear-eyed vigor of his revolutionary days to the meticulously-combed, vainly-mustachioed, narrow-eyed shiftiness of his union leadership. Such details help the film to capture a mood of quiet despair, a despair that speaks all the more eloquently because it is woven into the film's texture free of any staging or any rehearsed utterances...
...first time-even in Democratic circles. "The committee has taken too damn long," complained one congressional Democratic leader last week. "Timing is all important. They lost everybody's attention, and the President meanwhile went away on his mission of peace, glorifying himself." Said another Democrat with a hyperbolic despair not yet warranted by events: "They've about blown it. By the leaks, they've almost irreparably damaged the investigation." More realistically, another Democratic leader told Rodino: "Peter, the honeymoon is over...
...relations, many feel, is to do well. "Success is the best revenge," says Richard Clarke, owner of a large black employment agency in New York City. But as middle-class blacks have prospered, a gap has opened between them and the black underclass that remains mired in poverty and despair (see box page 26). The gap serves as a reminder of how far some have come and how many others still have to make the journey...
...lost her keys, checked into a nearby motel for a quick snooze, then walked out and forgot to pay. Her mother recently offered her $1,000 in cash if she would only get her hair done for an opening night; Sarah had no time. She would be the despair of all her friends and colleagues, if they did not love...
Americans should not be "prostrated with despair but exhilarated by the prospects of Watergate," Rep. John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.) told alumni at a "Law, Politics and the State of the Union" symposium in Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday...