Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORGAN! After their divorce, an eccentric London artist (David Warner) sets out to court his socialite ex-wife (Vanessa Redgrave) according to the law of the jungle. Their battle of the sexes is way, way out but surprisingly hilarious, poignant and civilized...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. In a small, poignant masterwork from Czechoslovakia, Nazi terror eventually poisons the friendship between a warmhearted old Jewess (Ida Kamińska) and a decent Aryan nonentity (Josef KrÓner) whose courage falters under stress...
...education is the key to economic growth and personal fulfillment, as Americans fervently believe, then Western Europe is in a bad jam. So warns Raymond Poignant, 48, who is a graduate of the tough Ecole Nationals d'Administration, a top French educational planner, and a judge of administrative law at the Counseil d'Etat (France's highest tribunal). His comparison of the educational systems in Western Europe, the U.S. and Russia has just been published under the auspices of the six Common Market countries...
...those-mostly of working-class backgrounds-who will end up in vocational and technical high schools. The 34% of U.S. college students who are children of laborers, and the 17% of Russians, are matched by only 7.5% in Germany and 12.6% in France. What Europe needs, in effect, says Poignant, is an American-style high school system, with all students in the same kind of school through the age of 16 or 18. Then the slugging match to enter colleges would not be shut off to any bright child, regardless of background, and both the nations and the children would...
PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. An old friend paints a wonderfully perceptive and poignant portrait of the writer who was both a symbol and an idol to his generation...