Word: heartbreaking
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...sent a solar wind of nostalgia over the 2,000 middle-aged record executives, hotel guests and show folk assembled for the opening night. It was like being back in the innocent '50s with Blue Suede Shoes, Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Don't Be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel, All Shook Up-and of course, the mangy Hound Dog ("cryin' all the time"). But things weren't quite the same. The audience was too grown up to scream and squeal. They clapped instead and called "Bravo!" and "More, more!" And Elvis-with longer sideburns and the grease...
Cultured, leisured Europe before the War was in the tightening grip of the pseudo-evangelical conviction of its irresistible ascendance toward eventual glory. Europe divided, in Shaw's terms, into Heartbreak House and Horseback Hall, the remorseless chamber of realistic understanding, and the palatial funhouse full of languishing multitudes. The world, Shaw writes, "idolized love but believed in cruelty." The War razed this fetid cathedral only to leave a desolate stone quarry. The post-war legacy of prostration, humiliation, and shattered faces demanded new artistic speech. Old men morosely questioned the value of their life's work. Young men felt...
...started hard up the last hill, Heartbreak Hill, and then began to slow down. Quite a bit did I slow down. It seemed to go on forever, and for the first time I wondered what would happen if I stopped. I was bent over and just tried to keep my legs moving. Length, not steep-ness, made it torturous. But then the Hill stopped and I started back towards the center of the earth, and I was very happy...
...have ventured forth without the knowledge amassed by the earlier astronauts, from Alan Shepard and John Glenn on, who dared brutal hazards aboard relatively primitive craft in the laggard race to launch Americans into space. In large measure, too, the superb functioning of Apollo 8 was a result of heartbreak...
...WARDEN threw a party in the county jail." Lieber-Stoller. Mike and Jerry. Then practically made Elvis. So many songs: "Hound Dog," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Little Egypt," on and on and on. "Jailhouse Rock," according to Peter Hayes, who anyone who is at all hip in Cambridge should know, or at least heard of, says: 'Jailhouse Rock' is the greatest song ever written." It's true...