Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always, O'Neill's language halts short of eloquence; yet in some peculiar way his characters speak a poignant, subliminal dialogue that makes the audience hear what does not quite get said. A supple cast that obviously loves and understands the play gives it emotive depth. As Hogan, W. B. Brydon is a raffish, truculent blend of peasant guile and blather, while Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged...
...blotted out by all too real events. Robert Kennedy lived for 25 hours and 27 minutes after being shot on a cruelly elongated Wednesday that the nation is likely to remember in the context of that Friday in 1963. Of all the words last week, some of the most poignant came from Mary Sirhan, who sent a telegram to the Kennedys. "It hurts us very bad what has happened," Mrs. Sirhan said. "And we express our feelings with them and especially with the children and with Mrs. Kennedy and with the mother and the father and I want them...
...placed a good deal of stock in the Oregon vote--even though Oregon lacked large black and lower-middle class elements of the Democratic coalition. After Kennedy lost, he hinted broadly that he would quit this year's campaign if he lost in California. Kennedy's defeat was especially poignant since it was the first loss of his dynastic family had sustained since his grandfather, former Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald lost a Senate race to Henry Cabot Lodge...
Meaningless & Poignant. Inevitably, De Gaulle's political enemies sought to use the disorders as an excuse to bring down the government of his hand-picked Premier, Georges Pompidou, 56, who more and more was acting and speaking like a dauphin in the crisis. Both the Communists, France's second largest party after De Gaulle's own U.N.R., and the Federation of the Left, led by Francois Mitterrand, tabled a joint censure motion in the National Assembly...
Activism is one sign of the increasing ferment in political science. Feelings of guilt and responsibility have made this ferment a particularly poignant issue for political scientists...