Word: sadder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reston again lamented the loss of America's innocence. "The guess here is that it will take some time to restore the self-confidence of the pre-Vietnam years, but it may be that the destruction of many popular misconceptions will produce a more mature, if sadder, nation...
Sally Quinn is leaving CBS-sadder, apparently, but wiser. "We hope she's happier than she was here," said Hughes Rudd, Sally's co-anchor on the CBS Morning News. Just five months after the network had hired her away from the Washington Post to make trouble for Barbara Walters of NBC's rival Today, Quinn quit. The victim of a premature publicity buildup and her own inexperience, Sally had also an unfortunate style: she picked over the news as if she could not decide which fork to use. She will join the New York Times...
...down the hill, you hear Hortensia saying, "But weddings are much sadder; I cry much more at weddings." The other women swallow their grins nervously. Don Imanuel walks up beside you. "Senorita, you should marry. Enjoy life before you die. For we all have to die sometime, you know." In the town, the brothers are dedicating a song over the loud-speaker to the mother of the dead child: "For Dona Rufina, in her grief...
...profoundly affected journalists. Marsh Clark first visited Viet Nam seven years ago, later served as bureau chief, and is now back in Saigon for a brief stint. "The mark of Viet Nam is forever on me," he says. "My language is altered, my hair grayer, my eyes sadder. Hamburger Hill, My Lai, the Green Berets, assassinations, mistaken air strikes, refugees and kids with napalm burns. The U.S. may try to forget, but that will be hard...
Despite all its faults, there is no doubt that the film was made as an act of political conscience. It was produced, in fact, by Gregory Peck, who financed it entirely out of his own pocket. All the sadder, then, that The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is so misconceived...