Word: despairingly
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...soaring price of gold-up to a record $118.75 an ounce in London-and the continued rise of inflation and interest rates combined to hammer the Dow Jones industrial average down 37 points, to 894. After a brief moment of sunshine, Wall Street again became a valley of despair...
Killing Everybody is a fortunate fall from lofty disgust. Harris has captured the pathology of the present age with out gloating over it or surrendering to despair. His characters are victims, but they have shored large fragments of human vitality against their ruin. If Killing Everybody is uneven, it is also per meated by a compelling amalgam of rage and love...
...times, the outrage turns to despair. There is "an almost universal feeling of dismay," says a recently departed Administration official who has returned to the business community. At a Chicago banquet 2½ weeks ago for top executives of companies listed in the FORTUNE 500, the talk about Watergate was reminiscent of an S.D.S. meeting; words like "fascist" and "arrogance of power" were used to describe the atmosphere in the Administration...
...against millennia of rumbling stomachs, pain and despair, the words bear unself-conscious profundity...
...then, turning upon it enraged, with instincts born out of the furtive life of the underground mind, he pounces on the most visceral and alarming rhythms of the age. He embodies our most hysterical fantasies and fears, and gives expression to the outer limits of our paranoia and despair...