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...dean, an incredible ineptness in handling the affairs of the School in general and the Planning Department in particular. Since his arrival, the School's troubles have steadily increased; his actions have given rise to the grievances now before the Corporation and have contributed to an atmosphere of near-despair among faculty and students. The best students now avoid the GSD, those who are there account for an inordinately high drop-out rate; the best faculty now avoid the GSD because, as one senior professor who bailed out last spring put it, "there is more rancor and bitterness at that...
...heavy melodrama, he kills off Henry with a bullet from the movement. Henry dies as ambivalently as he lived. Read has not so much shaped a resolution as confessed that he dare not imagine one. He seems paralyzed by suppressed hope the way other authors get paralyzed by suppressed despair...
AMERICAN NOTES The Cities Revisited More than three years after the Kerner Commission analyzed the causes of the great urban riots of the 1960s, the racial ghettos of the U.S. are more than ever an environment of decay, distrust and despair. That is the conclusion of a report, "The State of the Cities." issued by a commission of the National Urban Coalition...
...years, to wear mittens any time he is in a public place. "The mittens," said the judge, "must be of a texture a least as heavy as 8-oz. duck." One might as well break Artur Rubinstein's fingers. Mack has disappeared, in what presumably is defiant despair; a warrant is still out for his arrest...
...time to empathize with the devil's henchman. So Beowulf's Grendel is beastly, God-cursed, a conventional scourge to man. Gardner's Grendel may look like a lump of earth with a hairy pelt, but (conveniently, yet convincingly) he throbs with primal rage, despair, collegiate idealism and existential inquiry. Gardner has also given him a gnawing sense of humor. "I have eaten several priests," Grendel reports. "They sit on the stomach like duck eggs...