Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last week, on a day that superficially at least seemed to be less lonely than most, Janis Joplin died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic needle with heroin and shot it into her left arm. The injection killed...
...York Philharmonic had long been erased by his direction of the Hallé orchestra (see MILESTONES). The same day, Conductor Jonel Perlea, 69, died in New York, ending a career whose flickering brilliance had been dimmed by war and a succession of illnesses. Then came perhaps the saddest word of all. George Szell, 73, had died in Cleveland, victim of fever, bone cancer and heart attack...
...sense, last Wednesday night's riot is a source of mixed feelings, because many people are not sure "what it symbolized." Again the idea that we could do something concrete to make people's lives better-see direct beneficial results of our actions-sounds almost silly. One of the saddest realizations I have had recently is that since I have been at Harvard, I have not helped one human being in the world, least of all myself. I can remember that it was not always so. In high school I used to spend many weekends and all of each summer...
...SADDEST thing, then, about Rubin is that he doesn't "Do It." If he believed in what he says he wouldn't run around the plastic society playing the role of bad guy. Bad guys are just as much a part of society as anyone else. He should be off in some corner of the country with his people making a new life, a better life which we could then adopt...
...Saddest of all, playing at revolution is not really necessary. Many effective resources for reform are available-the courts, public opinion, peaceful demonstrations, the ballot. These vehicles are far less spectacular than TNT, but more effective in the long run. By changing the nation's mind rather than blowing it, those who seek to remake the world would at least have some chance of success...