Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition-and about 80% of these were either mystery-plotting hacks or vulgarizers of other works. Moaned he: "Who will deny that in this domain, statistics lead to the absurd? The problem of true writers would not have been resolved. There are many...
...Anger and urgency assail me," snaps Harvard College's Dean John Monro about a problem that roils educators across the country. It is the sad fact-and the underside of U.S. education-that hundreds of thousands of talented and sometimes brilliant youngsters not only lack the means to go to college but do not even aspire to go. Many among them are what sociologists gingerly call the "culturally deprived"-Negroes, Puerto Ricans, poor whites-who do not know that they are bright. Others are slum and farm kids ignored by crowded colleges because they go to "wrong" schools...
...Congenial. "The sad fact is she's calculated wrong every time she's made a decision," said Arthur Miller in 1956. But he also saw in Marilyn Monroe "tremendous native feeling. She has more guts than a slaughterhouse. Being with her, people want not to die. She's all woman' the most womanly woman in the world." Did her miscellaneous loves, her hopeless marriages to the California cop and Joe DiMaggio, trouble him? "I've known social workers who have had a more checkered history than she has," said Miller gallantly. For her part, Monroe...
Eastern Air Lines, once one of the nation's most profitable airlines, had sad news for stockholders last week. For the first nine months of the year, it lost $5.7 million, is likely to finish the year in the red and fail to make money for the first time since its incorporation in 1938. American Airlines reported that its earnings for the first nine months slid to $6,924,000 (v. $10,132,000 for the same period last year...
...times) and thinks he could not stand "that waaa-waaa noise kids make." Nevertheless he plans to leave most of his money to the children of friends. As he grows older, he treasures both silence and privacy more: "What's the point of seeing people those poor, sad, beautiful faces with all their heartbreaking troubles...