Word: despairingly
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White House aides sometimes despair that his more human qualities and his executive strengths simply do not get across to the people. Says Attorney General John Mitchell: "People do not see the President for what he really is or see what he is really doing. He is the most misunderstood and underestimated President." As Nixon knows, that "misunderstanding" is liable to become more and more politically dangerous to him as 1972 approaches...
...British diplomats paid a brief official call on imprisoned Reuters Correspondent Anthony Grey in Peking. At that point, Grey had spent 466 days in isolation as a hostage. His visitors left, deeply shaken by his apparent despair. Said one, afterward: "He lives in a void...
...years later, as they awaken to find Radcliffe giving more and more of herself to Harvard, many Radcliffe students are viewing the work of their trustees-the so-called "non-merger" merger-with a blend of suspicion, anger, and despair...
...towards the shore," said a close associate of Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath last week. "There's only so much sea room, and it's running out fast." Winter usually brings snarls to otherwise stiff British upper lips, but there is a mood of discontent and even despair in Britain today that is unlikely to disappear, as it normally does, with the first daffodils...
...Politics," he writes accusingly, "does not know the goal but forges a pretext of a goal." Negritude or colonialism, black power or white power-on these terms, history makes victims, if not slaves of us all. With a skepticism nearly as pure as faith, Ouologuem concludes: one ought to despair of men's ancient compulsion to rationalize tyranny and "believe one is right to despair. Love is nothing else." That is the way a victim can triumph, even as victim. It is the way Ouologuem at last turns his back on his past-without for a single moment turning...