Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though these stories may seem mere half-sad, half-merry anecdotes, they are actually incisive portraits of European Jewish life. Through Tevye's irony, they underline the weaknesses of that life: "I was . . . asking questions of the Almighty and answering them myself ... I wasn't worried about God so much, I could come to terms with Him . . . What bothered me was people...
...peculiarity of this reviewer to expect more from imported plays, such as this one, than of our own unproved offerings. (It is sad to note that the only two new exciting plays this season have both come from France--"Red Gloves" and "The Madwoman of Chaillot." There is no clear evidence that "Figure of a Girl" is worthy of its boat fare.) I therefore was disappointed...
...paintings in Portinari's show in São Paulo told of more enduring evils. Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth...
...report. Correspondent Wolfert can describe a battle in its coherent entirety while focusing attention on a few men fighting in it. But as a novelist, he cannot bring to life the feelings of men in war with the same vividness that he brings a battle to life. Towards his sad weakling of a hero, whom Wolfert tiresomely philosophizes over, the reader can feel only the sort of minor pity one feels for a sick puppy...
Such conflicting testimony was sad news to Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, committee chairman, who had hoped to find a meeting of minds on what new corporation taxes, if any, should be imposed. But though patient Senator Flanders had still to hear from more businessmen, it looked as if he-and Congress-would need all their patience to find a statesmanlike middle ground...