Word: sad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a living, feeling being is called a "patented invention" should be a sad one. Start crying...
...most of nine sad years, up until 1985, the Apollo was a shuttered reminder of Harlem's faded grandeur. The problem was simple economics. By the mid-'70s, big-name acts wanted so much money that it was impossible to squeeze a worthwhile profit out of the "small" 1,500-seat auditorium. Until the theater's closing, Cooper's amateurs still packed 'em in, but on most other evenings, the place was dead and empty...
...1960s brought unprecedented, positive change to this nation. The Civil Rights Movement legitimized concerns of millions of people to whom the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had become a sad joke. The anti-war movement contributed to the downfall of a President whose foreign policy could not be supported by the electorate...
...funniest thing in the play is when one of the characters sees Millie reading Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe and warns her mother of its pernicious content. But Millie is saved by Alan, who tells the mother that the book is on the reading list for the modern novel course at his college. Alas, even the play's overt humor eludes the cast...
When I was at Harvard, class of '64, I worked with the embryonic anti-apartheid and divestment movements of that time. It's sad to say that nothing has changed, either in South Africa or in Harvard's willingness indirectly to do business with that country...