As for the link between Gogol and Kafka, Nabokov expressed it precisely and with great economy in his famous lecture on The Metamorphosis: "In Gogol and Kafka the absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but, pathetically and tragically, attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans – and dies in despair".
The TV hit The Office looks an awful lot like the 1960s movie The Apartment, starring Jack Lemon's clumsy attempts to struggle through cubicle office life.
A small group of Jewish freedom fighters (today they'd be called terrorists) defied the accepted common sense that the powerful armies of Antiochus' Seleucid kingdom, located in Syria, were invincible and that attempting to struggle was immensely unrealistic and utopian.
See articleIn an attempt to help struggling homeowners in America, the agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac outlined a plan to avoid "preventable" foreclosures.
This was followed by the Obama administration's much touted but weak-kneed attempt to help struggling homeowners through the Home Affordable Mortgage Program ("HAMP"), which Litton signed on to after its introduction in 2009.
For example, the D&D group has more attempts per problem and students receive less feedback on each attempt, which might force students to "struggle" longer and hence learn more.
We do know that toddlers have been repeatedly observed attempting to help struggling adults without being prompted.
WASHINGTON — A frank evaluation by the World Bank's internal auditors of a decade of efforts to help East Timor underscores the challenges facing international organizations attempting to assist struggling nations.
Both ideas — the state exerting more control over private hospitals, and encouraging profit-motivated investment — are attempts to help struggling hospitals adapt to drastic changes in federal and state health care financing.
It is another to figure out the value of the mortgage pools within a CDO, which will own a diversified pool of securities.Nor is it clear what will be the upshot of Congress's attempts to protect struggling borrowers and to punish what it sees as predatory lenders.
