Word: bittersweet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...always there is Rome itself, giving shape and glory to what might otherwise be a formless fantasy. When the gates of the city finally close behind Jimmy as on a condemned playground, the picaresque hero carries with him two bittersweet truths: youth is short and Rome is eternal...
...Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
Schwartz is now working on a record about the prizefighting business, has plans for records on superstition, old age, the reasons why people move. Meantime, he continues to collect the bittersweet songs of the slum children...
...Seesaw. The way of an Omaha man with a Greenwich Village maid is often funny and bittersweet...