Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who do not know what it is like to wallow in a sink of oujamaflick will be enlightened by the sad story of Harry ("Dinger") Bell, child soldier of the Queen...
...Antony, just an animalistic gratification. Neither of the lovers is a noble person who experiences a tragic "fall" or deterioration. And we do not undergo a catharsis through "pity and fear" by witnessing their death. Nowhere in the play is death regarded as something terrible; we are not sad when Cleopatra takes her life, but rather rejoice in this final triumph she wreaks over Octavius. Both the lovers evince a death-wish; and we can even say that Antony and Cleopatra set up a menage a trois with Death as the third party...
...Star over Cuba? Sir: As a former Hungarian refugee and prospective U.S. citizen I can't help feeling a certain sad satisfaction upon Khrushchev's rocket-rattling warnings concerning Cuba. Four years ago we were anticipating something similar from the U.S. All we got was ''moral support" and the irresponsible lies of the unofficial American broadcasting stations. You-or rather we-deserve this lesson...
Bishop McManus, 59, who arrived in Puerto Rico as a missionary in 1929, became bishop in 1947. Two years later he denounced overpopulated Puerto Rico's legalization of birth control. Bishop McManus is also sad set against a Puerto Rican law that divorces couples who have been separated for three years, and against sterilization of women, a relatively simple procedure in public hospitals...
...care about background-the person was his concern-and he painted her sitting in darkness, yet glowing with light, her pale hands gracefully folded in a shy attempt to conceal her first pregnancy. But what makes the picture unforgettable is the expression on the face-the exquisitely sad look of one whose life has been stolen and who knows that no one will give it back...