Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their crystal-clear voices, sounding as if they were plucked right out of a church rock group. Three of their best numbers: Lemons Never Forget, in which the group displays some nice, tight vocal work; With the Sun in My Eyes, a gentle solo backed by organ; and the poignant Really and Sincerely, which starts with a lone French accordion...
...story of how Harvard got money from small farmers all over England to educate the Indians of Massachusetts is still a poignant one. It begins with the publication in 1647 of a tract by two Englishmen, "The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New England." The tract proposed that Harvard be made the trustee of funds contributed by the English for Indian education and conversion...
...which the bride momentarily forgot the name of the groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse the clock by means of surrealistic exercise machines and lamb-gland injections. But perhaps the most poignant was the closing scene -a tottering music-hall hoofer, reduced to playing a pub, tearfully singing When I Grow Too Old to Dream...
...rather pointless proverb-spouting neighbor played by Reggie Stuart, and Chekhov's occasional lapses of imagination. They can no longer hide behind the Slavic fog. But at the same time, the director's shaping of his Cherry Orchard makes the play funny, exciting, and intriguing as well as traditionally poignant. The play took just under three hours and you couldn't notice it, which even in the Moscow Art Theatre would be quite something...
...Viet Nam footage he screened on his CBS newscast one night last week was particularly poignant for Walter Cronkite. It showed a mortar bar rage at the Khe Sanh airstrip that wounded both the co-producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith. Neither Smith nor Bensley, who was filling in for an injured CBS sound man at the time, was seriously hurt. But three days later, after evacuation to Danang, Producer Bensley was wounded again during a rocket attack. His colon was ruptured and his spleen had to be removed. "The irony of it," said...