Word: poignant
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...occupation is traumatic. Perhaps the most poignant observation on Iraq in the past year was made by the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations representative in Baghdad, shortly before he was killed in a bombing last August. "Who would like to see their country occupied?" Vieira de Mello said to an interviewer. "I would not like to see foreign tanks in Copacabana." Time after time, the humiliation of occupation outweighs any good intentions that an imperial power may have. (Imperial powers always insist their true mission is a civilizing one, as if they aimed...
...discussing ideas with Weidman, his collaborator on Pacific Overtures. Their first thought was to create a musical about assassinations through history, starting with Julius Caesar. They eventually narrowed it to assassins of U.S. Presidents--each of whom gets a moment in the spotlight, voicing grievances both real and imagined, poignant and farcical. Sondheim sees the show as a comment on the dark side of the American Dream. "If you are led to believe that you can be President, so to speak, and you find out that you can't--that you have mistaken the kind of idealized dream for reality...
...have this poignant memory of calling the Core office and asking them if I could use ‘The American Presidency’ as my Core for social analysis. They were like, ‘I don’t know who gave you advice, or what you’re thinking about, but no, no chance in hell,’” he says...
...roles. Cassie L. Fliegel ’06 as Marlene was solid but uninteresting in the first act, but Fliegel’s subtlety turned out to be a true plus. The contrast between the successful career woman and the struggling inner self was all the more poignant as Fliegal’s acting progressively expanded in depth...
...statue of the three lies? Can do. The reason Memorial Hall looks like a cathedral? Ditto. Not only is one aware of Harry Elkins Widener’s whole sorry story, but also of the artist who painted the murals inside Widener Library (Sargent), of the reason the third, poignant condition Harry’s mother laid down for the construction of the library (all students must take a swim test to graduate) has been cancelled (the Disabilities Act). This information is only being shared in case the reader, too, is subjected to a terrorizing pop quiz while running...