Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeger's political ideas--they are too simple and undeveloped to be called doctrine--derive from these ideals. He will quote a poignant phrase from Ghandi and then sing We Shall Overcome, which has become closely connected with the integration sit-in movement. Or he will read a poem of Frost about human dignity and play Banks of Marble, which wonders about social injustice: "I have seen the weary miner scrubbing coal-dust from his back, I have heard his children crying 'got no coal to heat our shacks.'" This is the heart of Seeger's politics, not views...
...about his braying, villainous laugh. I know that rough edges are inevitable in a production cast almost entirely from one House but it is nonetheless a pity that one of them had to be Benvolio (Donald Scharfe). His announcement of Mercutio's death, one of the play's most poignant moments, he turns into a moment of near comedy. "Mercutio is dead," he says, without the hint of emotion in his voice. So what...
...Home. The poignant contrast of childhood and death makes for one of the season's best plays...
...Home. The poignant contrast of childhood and death make for one of the season's best plays...
Other notable current movies: Russia's poignant Ballad of a Soldier, Britain's larcenous comedy, Make Mine Mink; the spy thriller Circle of Deception...