Word: bittersweetly
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...sentimental occasions go, this one was only slightly more nostalgic than a session in night court. To honor the 50th anniversary in the theater of Actress Peggy Wood (Bittersweet, Blithe Spirit), ANTA last week collected round her most of the remaining members of the much-chronicled Algonquin Round Table. The late great wits were missing, of course-Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Herman Mankiewicz-and, significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks...
...finds herself incapable of helping a wounded soldier whose sweet-heart has left him. At the end of the war, though, despite her own suffering, she regains confidence in the demolished but existing world. And the hope that the suffering of war will have ended forever bring out a bittersweet courage in her which powerfully radiates this hope throughout the theater...
Separately, the ladies from Maine will fight their political battle without catcalls. Together, they are the symbols and the harvesters of the long, bittersweet struggle for women's rights...
...more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...always there is Rome itself, giving shape and glory to what might otherwise be a formless fantasy. When the gates of the city finally close behind Jimmy as on a condemned playground, the picaresque hero carries with him two bittersweet truths: youth is short and Rome is eternal...