Word: despairingly
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Mishima sealed this literary package with his ritual suicide in 1970, when he was only 45. Unlike, say, Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself at 61 in apparent despair over a deteriorating mind, Mishima killed himself in what seemed a gesture of robust if wasteful heroism, the ultimate act of self-control. Since his death was so theatrically deliberate, the temptation is strong to judge the tetralogy as an artistic and philosophical suicide note to the world. The note is now three-quarters completed for English-language readers. It is fascinating and ambitious, but the final message (and literary value...
Sung in clean, resonant tones full of calm emotion, his music captivates, sounds as firmly rooted in earthy, American myth as Woody Guthrie, as evocative of restlessness and despair as early Dylan. And then he has to go and ruin it all with a reference to those "chiselers" who are "living off the fat of our great land...
...rumor has it, most of the gondoliers on Venice's canals, but the party shares the capricious instability characteristic of all Italian politics. A few years ago, a popular film appeared here presenting a scenario in which the Communists won a majority in the general elections and then, in despair in having actually to take power, accused the liberal parties of rigging the election to force them into that political hot seat. Rhetoric riddled with both stubbornness and naivete dominated the festival's discussions about putting filmmaking in the hands of the people, or documenting the country's social ills...
...poll's findings show a general mood of public despair about conditions in the nation-an attitude that has changed drastically since a Yankelovich survey in October 1972, shortly before Nixon's triumphant reelection. Then, 53% of the people had a positive feeling about the way things were progressing; now 71% feel that things are going badly. Watergate is a substantial factor in the shift, since 36% of the public now express concern about the scandal. Yet the economy worries more people (66%, a climb of 25% since 1972), while the war in Southeast Asia predictably has dropped...
...ensuing ten years or so, many of his predictions proved painfully accurate. Now, with remarkable timing, he offers a historic analysis of the peculiarly American institution that is being blamed for most of what has gone wrong. In rage and despair over Viet Nam and Watergate, Americans have been urging reform of the presidential power, including everything from a longer term of office to abolition of the Chief Executive in favor of a six-man directorate...