Word: poignant
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...since 1939 the cost of living has risen 54%, while dollar earnings have risen 93%-a 25% rise in real wages. To people on more or less fixed incomes-a large segment of U.S. society not in organized labor's camp-this point was important, not to say poignant...
...only in a few of the jokes and situations which, half a year ago when the discharge rate was at its peak, were either funny or poignant, and which now somehow misfire, that the passage of time is evident. For instance, in one of the first scenes two soldiers are talking of the wonders of being civilians again. One is remarking to the other how great it is to be wearing the ruptured duck when the second soldier breaks in to say, "that ain't no ruptured duck, that's a bird of paradise." When one was still getting used...
...Pisgah sight. For although the Harvard faculty is rivalled by no other American college with the possible exception of Chicago, it is surprisingly spotty and contains astonishing lacks. By and large, the Faculty's principal weakness seems to lie in its younger men, a weakness which is particularly poignant inasmuch as the continued supremacy of the Harvard Faculty is predicated on its ability to replenish itself through the appointment of the very best of the young teachers and scholars. In addition, discrepancies exist among the ranks of associate and full professors, discrepancies which are reflected in the course catalogue...
...albums was ready for the Christmas trade. The newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...
...Washington and London the delegation made a poignant plea for democratic aid in solving Hungary's economic and political difficulties. Would the U.S. and Britain be willing to support Hungarian requests for a moratorium on the crushing $200 million reparations burden to Russia? Would the Western democracies side with Hungary on such matters as the revision of Transylvania's award to Rumania? Would the West press harder, against Russian reluctance, for the internationalization of the Danube...