Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark and poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father...
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. Czech Director Jiří Menzel's poignant film is a series of contradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure...
Resignation Offer. As recently as 1948, California law would have made the union a criminal offense in the state. Until last June, when the U.S. Supreme Court killed Virginia's miscegenation law, 16 states still banned interracial marriage. More to the point, and more poignant, in a year when blackwhite animosity has reached a violent crescendo in the land, two young people and their parents showed that separateness is far from the sum total of race relations in the U.S.-that to the marriage of true minds, color should be no impediment. Indrawn as usual, Rusk pronounced himself "very...
...dungeon, and life into hell. Much later, no longer a princess but still a Little girl at the age of 37, she tried to remember what had happened. She wrote it all down in 35 days as a group of letters. And it was surely the darkest and most poignant princess story ever told. For never before was there a king like evil Joseph Stalin and a princess as sweet and troubled as Svetlana Alliluyeva...
Copping Out, Plugging In. Meanwhile, the growing sophistication of the Beatles' outlook found expression in a series of sharply observed vignettes of English life. The most poignant was last year's Eleanor Rigby...