Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comfort and salvation. Author Salman Rushdie, 41, who was born in Bombay and educated at Cambridge, shows every sign of disproving Kipling's bromide about East, West and the twain never meeting. They have met, all right, in his experience and imagination, with results that are alternately comic, poignant and explosive...
...invaders were thrown back, suffering disastrous casualties. Yet for the brilliant North Vietnamese commander, General Vo Nguyan Giap, Tet was an important symbolic victory. American confidence in the war effort, and in the leadership that had promised success, was irrevocably shattered. The images of war -- always shocking, bleak, agonizingly poignant -- took on a darker significance. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," declared a U.S. major in the battle for Ben Tre, a provincial capital...
...Board of Overseers member John Lithgow '67 announces plans to film the deliberations of the board for a poignant three-part television mini-series. Lithgow will star as a member who is silenced for his proposal of divestment from companies that dump sewage into Boston Harbor, and Fred Grandy '70 will portray the stern President Bok in the film, to be called, "Divestment Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry...
...Pulitzer prizewinner Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play) launches an earnest, poignant cycle of five black history dramas, beginning with Sally and / Prince, in repertory off-Broadway...
...Pulitzer prize winner Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play) launches an earnest, poignant cycle of five black history dramas, beginnning with Sally and Prince, in repertory off Broadway...