Word: despairingly
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...finds himself in a bind," Nicholi said of the potential dropout. "He can no longer tolerate the loneliness of his work; neither can he tolerate the competitive anxiety provoked by close contact with colleagues. He withdraws into himself. His work rapidly deteriorates. He becomes overwhelmed with guilt and despair... A paralyzing state of depression ensues and leaving college appears the only recourse that promises relief...
...political response to our current despair must include some real answer to the agony of Vietnam. But the Left owes some responsibility to the American people, too: to put forward some ideas of how their lives can be improved and how their nation and planet can be kept livable. It is not a moral act to bring the nation crashing down upon their heads...
...grand entertainment, the book is an animated suspension of De Vries' 30 years' war to unite tragedy and farce, faith and despair. It has none of the wrenchings of personal loss and religious crisis found in The Blood of the Lamb. There are no ghastly satirical accidents or bizarre deaths, such as befall the poet in Reuben, Reuben who hangs himself in an orthopedic harness. In Mrs. Wallop, the grotesque is thoroughly housebroken by De Vries' mastery of the instruments of parody. Literary styles and genres are lampooned, and holy cows milked. But Mrs. Wallop is really...
...story, entitled Prueba Superada (Passing the Test), Pablo becomes almost overwhelmed by fear, anxiety and doubt after joining a guerrilla column in an unnamed Latin American country. On one terrible march, his shoes give out, his feet become badly blistered, his rifle jams and he breaks his glasses. In despair, Pablo, who is ignored by the other guerrillas, decides to desert at the first opportunity, but a veteran member of the band finally befriends him. Under the influence of the older guerrilla, Pablo stands his ground in a firefight with the guardia...
...mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously course labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that." Beneath his countrymen's amusements, Thoreau saw "a stereotyped but unconscious despair which permitted no relaxation from the young nation's frenzied strivings...