Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Zorn was in despair "when he felt a gentle finger touch his elbow." It was the Golux, "a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark, describable beard...
...welfare state. But listeners have also heard that Britain has "moved into the twilight and confusion and frustration of a Planned Economy" and it is beginning to realize that it has "lost much of" its "precious heritage of freedom." According to America's Future, England has "wide-spread poverty, despair, distrust among friends and antagonism between employer and employee...
...intelligence and education in this cultural backwash. The trouble for them and most of their friends is that intelligence and education simply enable them to see the appalling sterility of the rest of their friends, the town, and the whole country. This fills them with a proper Russian despair...
...directed the play. Her acting was first class, and it is to her credit as a director that the suffering did not get out of control, as it might so easily have done. Behind her as the other two sisters are Margaret Webster and Sylvia Farnham, both of whom despair well. At a more or less uniform level of excellence are Paul Ballantyne, George Hill, David Lewis, Peter Temple, Eugene Stuckmann, and Darthy Hinkley, most of whose Russian names would be enough to throw me into a despair...
...milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent and most moving theme is the perpetual dialogue between despair and hope, the death wish and the life urge. In The Lady's most beautiful scene, Thomas Mendip speaks to Jennet, the heroine...