Word: despairingly
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Local election defeats were hardly important enough to drive the Christian Democrats to despair but, as one party leader put it, "the C.D.U. has been given something to think about." In the thinking of most of the party's top politicians, it had to do with the wavering image of West German leadership-largely because of the transition from old Konrad Adenauer's autocratic rule to Der Dicke's noticeably milder administrative manner. "I can't mend what they smash in Bonn," mourned one losing pro-government candidate last week. Added a high party functionary...
...most remarkable family in American history made sure its good deeds did not go unrecorded. All the prominent Adamses of Massachusetts kept voluminous diaries in which they quarreled with their enemies, justified their own acts, occasionally fell into despair or soared into poetry. As part of its mammoth project to publish the Adams family papers, Harvard University Press has already brought out four volumes of John Adams' diaries. Now it is Charles Francis Adams' turn...
...quarter-century, French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has been the symbol of what is best (implacable honesty) and worst (rootless pessimism) about the modern European intellectual. He has been the pre-eminent philosopher of despair. Simultaneously, with his novels and plays he has cast himself as a propagandist on the barricades of social justice-in fact on both sides of the barricades, since despite a markedly Red-leaning political line, he has never joined the Communist Party and has periodically quarreled with it. Living his preachments in private as well as in politics, he has maintained with Simone de Beauvoir...
...Henry Lamar is a builder of football players, not just a coach, so this year's lack of poundage and high-school credentials is not automatically a cause for despair...
...squabbles with Generals Pershing and Marshall, his truculent communiqués and press releases that so infuriated his superiors. Nor was MacArthur one for personal revelations; yet Reminiscences does give fascinating glimpses of the human side of MacArthur during his many hours of triumph and his many moments of despair...