There was a time in the not-too-distant past when a trip to Africa by a senior United States official would focus largely on humanitarian aid and development assistance to hopelessly poor, war-torn nations.
Caldwell's reputation as a novelist largely rests on Tobacco Road and on God's Little Acre (1933), another best-selling novel featuring a cast of hopelessly poor and degenerate whites in the rural South.
At the turn of the century, many visitors, including Jacob Riis, saw the area as the sink hole of the city, brutally overcrowded, hopelessly poor, outlandish in dress and manner.
But a sour taste remains, and it's hard not reach for a line from that beautiful Smiths song Half A Person, released a quarter-century ago: "In the days when you were hopelessly poor, I just liked you more".
DIEPSLOOT, South Africa — A dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the impromptu patchwork of the poor, the extremely poor and the hopelessly poor.
Before that, I was part of the team that produced the world?s first micromanipulation baby in 1989, where sperm were injected under the shell of eggs in a patient whose husband had a hopelessly poor sperm count and who had no other recourse of fathering his own child.
The response was hopelessly inadequate".
A nice couple in Redcar, lumped with the nice Chinese mother Apple, furiously mimed "Beach – beach – castles in the sand," thus hopelessly confusing the poor dear about the words "castle" and "sand".
They knew that, like the poor, some hopelessly intoxicated people in public places would always be with us.
The Pentagon has yet to meet a military in a desperately poor or hopelessly corrupt country that it does not believe it can train and equip to a professional standard.
Poor Fritz falls hopelessly in love with 12-year-old Sophie von Kuhn, unremarkable in looks and certainly no match for him in brains, who dies a couple of years later from tuberculosis.
