Word: poignant
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...Alley operating at full throttle, every G.I. could hit the beach with a song in his backpack. Terrific songs, many of them. They still sound swell today, and they even look good on the bandbox stage of Manhattan's Blue Angel Supper Club in a larkish but poignant revue called Swingtime Canteen, directed by Kenneth Elliott...
Mary Cantwell's second book, Manhattan, When I Was Young, invites readers into Cantwell's Manhattan life not as visitors, but to experience its fullness with all their senses. With intricate details this memoir recreates a vivid picture of New York that will draw poignant memories from any New Yorker and leave others hungering for its vitality...
...some of whom have expressed doubts -- that Smith deserves the death penalty. It may have. "Whereas Susan has been accused of playing to people emotionally -- of turning on and off her tears -- what came from David today was true, raw feeling," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It was so poignant and such a hard act to follow that the defense did not even attempt to cross-examine him." Towle says Smith makes his most effective point -- that Susan, rather than their sons, has been inappropriately pegged as the victim -- in a persuasive passage near the end of his book. Having...
...proposed anti-terrorism bill is a step in the wrong direction. The bill politicizes the bombing, turns it into an occasion for a legislative event. More than a piece of legislation or a poignant evocation of American innocence lost, this country needs to enter a gutwrenching dialogue with itself about the social and political disenfranchisement of its own citizenship, especially those that have taken up arms against the United States government...
Tobias Wolff's article was the most poignant and thought-provoking short piece I have read to date on the reasons for our downfall in the Vietnam War [ESSAY, April 24]. I am a Vietnam-era veteran, and I found that Wolff has portrayed masterfully that conflict's lingering aftermath and the painful rift it has left in U.S. society. Let us hope that someday soon, via efforts like Wolff's, the rest of us will reach a higher understanding of the Vietnam vet's ongoing ordeal...