Word: despairingly
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...botching the job. Many denounce the Viet Nam war as "an intellectuals' war," because assorted academics helped conduct it. Meantime, the New Left has attacked liberals for having failed to cure the country's social ills. Caught in this cross fire, the intellectuals are wavering between passive despair and revolutionary fervor. Today, many intellectuals are unsure of where they fit into U.S. life, unsure of how to apply their intelligence to rational reform -even unsure of just what an intellectual is, or ought...
...been this ceaseless warding off of despair, symbolizing his survival through disasters to which others succumbed, which has given to Ungaretti his remarkable capacity to speak amidst these silences and to shatter the mute world of Europe in the twentieth century...
...theatrical, but rather the awareness of anonymity and other sorrows. Influenced more by Giacomo Leopardi, the great Italian poet of the nineteenth century, and by Mallarmé, than by the aesthetic exigencies of his own age, Ungaretti shared with his close friends Apollinaire and the Fauvist Braque a profound despair over history's irrationality. But Apollinaire never survived the War, and those who did were so shattered and forlorn that their only response was that of an iconoclastic Dadaism...
Pierrot is not a pessimistic statement on the meaningless of human existence. There is too much beauty in the film to be able to come away with a feeling of total despair. In Godard's words, "the cinema, by forcing reality to unfold itself, reminds us that we must attempt to live...
Rather, we might imagine, to supplement the right-to-left line for political stances, a linearly independent vector for romanticism. Left-romantics want to change people because they despair that systems can be changed or because they believe that systems will change to fit the change of people's needs. Left-romantics (pragmatists?) want to change the system to change the man (or perhaps for more abstract reasons, justice, etc.). George Orwell, in his essay on Charles Dickens, recognized the trends, saying, "They appeal to different individuals, and they probably have a tendency to alternate in terms of time...