Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of clamorous pressure, Congress has not acted so far. Rachel Carson's poignant death last week at her home in Silver Spring, Md., after years of suffering, came at a time when the whole problem was under cool consideration. It seems likely now that any law which may finally be passed to regulate pesticides-some of which are really dangerous-will be reasonable and constructive. For her luminous life of The Sea, and for her part in wakening her countrymen to the possible perils from pesticides and other chemicals, Rachel Carson may be remembered for many a spring...
...FIANCÉS. Old love refurbished is the theme of a poignant little masterwork by Italian Director Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets...
Cheever's Poignant Vision...
...confess that I just can't make up my mind about Hobbing's story. At times it seems trite, pretensious, completely predictable, and lacking in subtlety. Other times it impresses me as a poignant tightly-constructed narrative. Is this moving or is it hackneyed...
...Legacy of Pain. In one of two compelling off-Broadway offerings that do have unity of tone, meaning, and performance, a consciousness of massive injustice and personal sorrow settles movingly upon the playgoer. In White America is a poignant chronicle of the Negro's centuries-old legacy of pain, oppression, and denial, from the days of slavery to the present hour. It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots. Sensitive actors make the word intolerance become flesh, tortured, torturing...