Word: saddens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminiscent glow. This is how Vienna was. These are the people who coursed its cobbled streets under the gaslights-denizens of a far less frenetic age. Von Doderer has no illusions: he knows they are all dead, along with their time, but the fact cannot sadden a memory whose gaiety is as imperishable as the ghost of Vienna itself. In his skillful hands, the ghost becomes very much alive...