Word: despairingly
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Despite the vigorous self-confidence of Spock's new book, Decent and Indecent, self-doubt and despair creep in. In these moments Spock bemoans the futility of rearing well adjusted babies who will be incinerated by a sick society. Unspoken is his personal despair that Spock the activist can't wield the power of Spock the psychiatrist/pediatrician. He changed childbearing practices but can't stop...
...central feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns. they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...
...fiercely. "Is there an answer/in [lovers'] sweet faces/ that tells me why I live and die?" There is a rumble underneath the tarpaulin covering the stage below him. Heads poke out, and arms, waving, reaching. The Hair tribe is nude, facing us. The act has only the logic of despair, but it is not gratuitous. It is only right that they have taken off their clothes. It is a sad and angry gesture: if you are the right age in the right mind, you might cry when it takes place...
...least the possibility of doing so. In 1937 when he resolved to leave the Party-in the middle of the Moscow purges-he had come to regard Communism as an absolute evil. But he placed little hope in the U.S. or the European democracies either. How could he? Fascism, despair, hysteria, exploitation, economic anguish, war and the threat of war-all those things that Marx had taught him would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous...
...Chambers was also haunted by philosophical and political despair, beset by sickness and debt. He had qualms about contributing to the National Review at all. Missing deadline after deadline, his mind and pen ever poised to examine any key issue at Hegelian lengths, Chambers must have been difficult to fit into the everyday demands of editorship. Clearly the man and his words were worth all the trouble. It is hard not to agree with Buckley's valediction composed after Chambers' death in 1961. He speaks "to our time from the center of sorrow...