Word: grief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moments of pain, a man may laugh, and in a desperate situation, he may take refuge from his grief in humor. In British Playwright Peter Nichols' comedy, Albert Finney and Zena Walker bounce from sadness to clowning and back again as the parents of a child described as a "wegetable...
...shared in the gift. "When TIME and LIFE moved to our famous quarter of Paris," said Gallery Owner Hervé Odermatt in his presentation, "we here today were proud to become your neighbors. We come here tonight as friends to tell you that we share your mourning and your grief...
...their relief, they have been proved wrong. Rey may lack the imperious stubbornness that brought Hallstein to grief, but he has firmly established himself as master of his house. By delegating more authority than Hallstein, he has transformed the once dispirited commission that serves as the Common Market's Cabinet into a sound and cohesive team. He has repaired the disarray left by Hallstein's pitched battles with De Gaulle, showing that he is willing to compromise with the French without kowtowing to them. Through it all, with a judicious mixture of courage and pragmatism, he has revivified...
Irrigation Ditch. Aside from the grief over the dozen or so casualties, no one seemed overly distressed by the new impasse. Though their battered economy is losing $5,000,000 a week in tolls, the Egyptians do not really seem all that anxious to open the canal, apparently hoping that as long as it remains closed the maritime nations will put pressure on Israel to withdraw from its east bank. The Israelis, on the other hand, have no intention of letting the canal open so long as they are denied its use. As for the U.S., it seems quite content...
...artfully professional new repertory group has now joined the U.S. theater: the Negro Ensemble Company. Supple in motion, stoic in grief, satiric in temper, the all-Negro cast (five men, four women) turns Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete...