Word: despairingly
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...Instead of delighting in life, as did Grandma Moses, Andrew Wyeth seems to revel in a dolorous view. His work depicts death, decay, hopelessness and despair. Is this "what America is like...
Absurdity & Despair. The bleak, mocking portrayal of 19th century Russian life that Shostakovich chose for his libretto survives from the original version. A gay and clever girl marries into a loveless, thankless life among crude and cruel merchants. A love affair blossoms with one of her husband's workmen, and, bewitched by the promise of a new life, she kills both husband and father-in-law. Just as she and her lover take happy possession of the Mtsensk manor house, the crimes are discovered; on her way to Siberia in a column of convicts, she is taunted...
...truly do not care for any man who would parcel out my God-given liberties. I am a black man whose patience has run out, and I criticized John F. Kennedy until that day his murder shocked me into despair. Suddenly I felt that he was certainly a champion for all men and that he had been struggling in a sea of hatred...
Different Shops. One reason for despair is the cold war's "lessening of tensions," which inadvertently bolsters the hated regime of Soviet Puppet Walter Ulbricht. East German citizens oppose the U.S. wheat sale to the Russians because the West did not try to extract political concessions from the Reds in exchange. Talk in Bonn about $100 million in trade credits to the Soviet Zone inspired an avalanche of protest letters from the captive population to friends in the West. "We would starve," said one correspondent, "if we could make the government fall...
...leaving behind an acre or so of stunned faces that say all there is to say about war's anguish at home. And Chukhrai pumps irony into a sequence that has Sasha posing for a photographer beside her drill press. She is alone, an unwed mother, sick with despair, but the picture is published over the caption: "Sasha Lvova finds happiness in her factory. She has enlarged her quota 163%." Director Chukhrai seems fully aware that pravda is stranger than fiction...