Word: despairingly
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...young kibbutznik's challenge is a threat to the curious national spirit the Israelis have created by establishing hope in the face of despair. But his charge of conservatism is particularly interesting to liberal Americans. For the militarism and super-patriotism so common in Israel are found only among the more conservative elements in American society. The context of the conservatism is obviously different in the two countries, and American excesses are a greater threat to world security than those of the Israelis. But it seems fair to ask if individuals are restricted by the assumption that certain pre-defined...
...soldier should have posed some questions which simply did not occur to him. Must every Israeli feel his situation so strongly? Must this tension between fear and security, despair and hope, this constant viewing of life in terms of black and white, be so pervasive...
...they are having a good time. A good time is "having a lot of laughs," and their laughter-inane, drunken, forced-explodes and cackles frantically throughout the film. They feed one another stupid jokes, lies and childish games to keep the laughter coming. When it cracks, the bewilderment and despair leak out into the room and turn the laughers sick, self-pitying or snarling...
...article by your Mr. Alexander in the Freshman Registration Issue, while purporting to bid the class of '72 "Hello! Hello!," seemed, rather than a greeting, to be a potent mixture of good and bad rhetoric, of truth and error, of hope and despair, of, if you will, "Hello!" and "Goodbye!" A partial antidote is here offered...
...Says Nobel Prizewinning Biochemist Arthur Kornberg of Stan ford, who had never worked in politics before the McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though he has already decided at least to cast...