Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...
Semifeudal Latifondisti, powerful landowners long protected by Fascism, saw in independence a chance to prolong their rule. Sicilians in general saw in Italy the source of all their recent grief. They flocked around Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, energetic mouthpiece for Sicilian separatism, and nominal head of the maffia...
...Grand father Romulus Hanks, late Captain of the 117th Iowa.) It is crowded with pas sages of adolescent naughtiness, self-conscious profanity and dreamy, implausible and interminable accounts of old Southern vices. Its battle scenes are compounded reports of decapitations, disembowelings, castrations. It is a novel of death without grief, fornication without intimacy (or even without much interest), violence without terror...
...World War II Bernard O'Reilly is a neutral citizen of neutral Eire. He has one grief: his unneutral son, John Francis. Early in the war John turned up in Germany, broadcast Nazi propaganda, was dubbed the Irish Haw-Haw. Last December John came back to Eire by Nazi parachute, was seized by the De Valera Government, clapped in a Dublin prison. A fortnight ago John escaped, hopped a train from the capital, grubbed sympathy and sandwiches from fellow passengers, got off at Limerick, beat his way through forest & field to his father's home...
During the course of the film, Hargrove gets lost on maneuvers, picks up the general's coat by mistake and sees his typewriter bounce on the head of the C.O. Robert Walker turns in an excellent performance and his hilarious facial expressions of grief, futility, surprise, and resignation make him a fine choice for the title role...