Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...present novel is about love, death, happiness and sorrow. It is also about the city of Venice and the Veneto, which Hemingway has known and loved since he was a young...
Pearl Buck, the young mother, was never to forget those words, spoken 30 years ago. But the joy with which she welcomed her baby soon turned to sorrow. The little girl's body was sound and strong; her mind was doomed to remain forever imprisoned in childhood...
...harder to shield herself. "I did my work . . . But none of it meant anything . . . The hours when I really lived were when I was alone with my child . , I could let sorrow have its way . . When she wept," her child would only stare and laugh, and "it was this uncomprehending laughter which always and finally crushed my heart...
...follow. He has gained an international reputation, says one Florentine critic, "[simply] because he is connected musically to international trends." At home, he has won critical respect because, as another critic puts it, "There is no aridity in Dallapiccola . . . Very few musicians feel with so much intensity and sorrow . . . the tremendous tragedy of our times." But, like the twelve-tone work of U.S. composers, his lyrical but contorted music has still to win the affection of the public. Says Dallapiccola himself: "The public's difficulty with twelve-tone music is not dissonance. It is in understanding the series...
Said Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S.: "It is with the deepest sorrow that we have learned of the death of Bob Doyle. His loss has saddened all the Indonesian people and left those of us who knew him with a deep sense of personal loss. He was a fine man and a keen observer of events. We held him in the highest esteem and affection...