Word: despairingly
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...captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
...Your characterization of my belief that only price and wage controls will reconcile decently high employment with reasonably stable prices as the "voice of despair" [Dec. 14] is just a shade reminiscent of the bad, old, tendentious TIME. I've long felt that the age of Keynes is over, that strong unions and powerful corporations have insured that fiscal and monetary policy along the old and comfortable lines, will no longer serve. In contrast, your business pages and most of the very distinguished economists with whom you consult have, until very lately, disagreed. Now circumstances, implacable as always, have...
...will believe it has ended only when the great, greasy, Victorian city hall turns into an opera house and ward leaders become crusaders for ecology. As my grandmother used to say (she, like Mr. Kenny, had her own little adage): "We live in hope and we die in despair...
...core rots, the whole apple will rot." Or as John Lindsay puts it: "If we cannot move forward in the cities, we will move backward in America. If we fail now, the cost will far outweigh today's financial deficits. They will be measured in despair, in hatred, in bitterness and in strife...
...Despair. Equally dazzling, considered as illustration, is Duane Hanson's tour de force of social realism. "The content of my sculpture," he recently declared, "is derived from my feeling of despair. Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time." So his work makes up a chamber of all-American horrors: lifesize, startlingly real figures cast in Fiberglas and polyester resin. A group of Bowery winos sprawl filthily on a littered sidewalk; a dead motorcyclist, hideously mangled, lies pinned under his wrecked machine. In Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America...