Word: despairingly
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...rasa. He is known to whisper FORTRAN into her phones at lunch hour. She does not go for wonks, so he wears a beret to look artsy. But despite her electric personality, he can't turn her on. His case is fatal; he kept falling on the ice in despair and abandon...
...relentlessly analytical of other people and utterly blind to himself. This inhibits the playgoer's compassion. Maitland's experiences are a distillation of pain; Butley's, merely a concentrated display of panic. Nonetheless, there is considerable pathos in Butley, for his manic verbal foolery is the despair of a man who cannot afford the respite of silence...
...billion in aid into Czechoslovakia, in an obvious attempt to buy civil peace, if not the loyalty of the country's citizens. As a result, a surface prosperity prevails in Prague that contrasts curiously with the mood of Czechoslovaks; as a nation they remain gripped by apathy and despair. TIME'S Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers, who covered Czechoslovakia before the invasion, returned there recently to file this report...
...same time, a palpable sense of collective despair permeates the country. The reason is not hard to divine. From all indications, the Russians are there to stay. The Soviets have built permanent barracks for their soldiers, apartment houses for their officers and wives, and schools for Russian children. Certain choice seats are reserved for them at the National Theater and several concert halls. Understandably, the Soviet occupiers avoid mingling with the local population, preferring to cluster together in public places, often talking in whispers to one another. Even in civilian clothes, Russian soldiers are easily recognized by their crude serge...
...reasons that have rather more to do with coincidence than Zeitgeist, there is currently a theatrical flurry of interest in the rugged life of Billie Holiday, the supreme jazz singer who died of the cumulative effects of dope and despair in 1959. Brooklyn's Chelsea Theater last week presented a jazz musical called Lady Day that uses Holiday (sung by Cecelia Norfleet) as a symbol of the ravages that racial repression can work. "Seething with anger, this Lady Day misses all that was funny and spunky in the real woman," said TIME'S Drama Critic T.E. Kalem...