Word: despairingly
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...Tears, idle tears . . . tears from the depth of some divine despair." Characteristically trying to keep cheerful, Lear referred to his own numbing bouts of depression as "the morbids." His versifier's reaction to such metaphysical miseries would never win him the laureateship, but they essayed an heroic humor outside Tennyson's reach...
Many of the rebels are acting out of a general sense of despair about America-and this despair deserves a measure of respect. But other aspiring Jacobins seem to regard the shouts and gestures of revolution merely as drugs for instant, mystical satisfaction. Perhaps the most striking feature of the movement is its vagueness. It is determinedly unprogrammatic, unhistorical. Its goals are undefined, and defiantly so. New Left Spokesman Carl Oglesby charts the radical's course in a recent article: "Perhaps he has no choice and he is pure fatality; perhaps there is no fatality and he is pure...
...acting is high-styled and full of flair. John Heffernan, as the prisoner, awaits his fate with a finely sustained projection of frustration and despair, and Joseph Bova is certainly the most jovially sadistic executioner a man could lose his head over...
...result, though few people on the left have yet been willing to admit it, is that the New Left today is a mess. It is a morass of slogans and apocalyptic visions, full of desperation and despair. It is a movement without ideology, without anything that can be called strategy, and without a coherent program for social or economic change...
...sensationalism of the copy forestalls any extended attempt by the Spectator editors to explain why the Columbia campus was one of the earliest to erupt. Why, that is, beyond despair over the war and distaste for university bullying of the community, issues, common to all campuses. The Ivy Wall makes a flying reference that greater social awareness at Columbia and an insensitive administration might have triggered the crisis...