Word: despairingly
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...President's visit is a major step on the road toward mutual understanding between nations, where confidence replaces terror and hope takes over from despair. Mr. Nixon is only on his honeymoon of his term of office. We all hope he will sustain his efforts...
...play, which is full of life's nothingness, despair, and death, manufactures miserable versions of characters from mythology. It could succeed; its Bacchus as a barkeep who can't get drunk and a psychotic slattern who might be an uglified and twisted Aphrodite are curious figures, and a raid by a masked group led by Death always has dramatic potential...
...lyrics are complemented by an insistently rhythmic organ and Sonny Boy's incredible crying harmonica. The combination of the lyrics and the music creates sadness, loneliness, and despair--the Blues--and yet the sound of his slashing harp and insistent flowing rhythm section indicate that despite his blues Sonny boy can still swing and by singing and playing the Blues he is able to transcend his blues...
...faithfulness of the lyrics to the gut essentials of emotion and the accompanying faithfulness of the music to the erratic course the relentlessly frank lyrics take. And thrown in with all this are the rhythmic patterns, which fluctuate wildly as the words shifts (often suddenly) between hope and despair...
Anouilh's The Rehearsal opens amid a flurry of epigrams and bon mots, ends on a wintry note of bitter despair. Doing so, it settled into a little too much mawkishness for may taste. The direction, though, by Michael Murray, was superb. The first act and a half--free of the play's pathos--is a streamlined French farce, wittily delivered and swiftly played...