And he described, in at times desperate tones, rejection and ridicule from other teenagers.
President Obama visited Louisiana on Sunday afternoon for a firsthand look at the response effort, while officials for BP described in detail their desperate efforts to seal the gushing well.
After all, despite the uneasy, increasingly desperate mood-state described in "The Bell Jar," the first part of the novel is set against a backdrop of big-city glamour.
McCarthy's youth, as described in her terrific "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" (1957) was desperate.
Desperate to maintain some racial diversity, university officials set up outreach programs in lower-income school districts, as James Traub described in this magazine several years ago.
The calls quickly became urgent when a doctor who had been aboard a passing boat stepped ashore to tend to them, whom he described as being in desperate condition.
It follows the publication of a column by Hopkins in the tabloid on 17 April, in which she described migrants desperate to reach Britain following humanitarian disasters in their own countries as "cockroaches" and suggested the government deploy "gunships" to stop them landing on shore.
In it, she described migrants desperate to reach Britain following humanitarian disasters in their own countries as "cockroaches" and suggested the government deploy "gunships" to stop them landing on shore.
In December 2008 Sophia González sat in an NGO office in one of the large slums surrounding the city of Córdoba in Argentina and described her desperate search for an abortion.
In its review, Life described "The Desperate Hours" as a "reënactment" of the Hill case.
