Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pathetic tale with great literary tact, balancing against the slapstick ignorance and innate apathy of his unheroic characters, their deep sense of their own personal dignity, natural courtesy, terrible patience, thwarted honesty. No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest...
World War II has yet to produce a great song, but last week some of its saddest were heard in the U.S. The League of American Writers produced an album of records ($2.75) called Behind the Barbed Wire-six songs of the French, Spanish, Italian and German antiFascists who now rot in the French concentration camps of Gurs, Vernet d'Ariège, Argel...
...Saddest case of the week was the conviction on looting charges of four of Britain's heroic "suicide-squad" helpers of Captain Robert Davies, famed for his safe removal of a delayed-action bomb from in front of St. Paul's (TIME, Sept. 30). Obliged to give the four hero-looters sentences of nine months at hard labor, the magistrate observed: "I am awfully sorry...
...Look at the Lampoon," she told the United Press, "If it isn't the saddest idea of a magazine I Don't know what is. Why it's only a pale copy of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang...
...clown and comparatively harmless himself, nevertheless he provides a dramatic lesson in the basic techniques of modern dictatorship, and a reminder of the economic sickness of American democracy. It can happen here. Social inequality, economic insecurity--these are the breeding ground of bigger Hitlers than Mr. James. Saddest commentary of all is the perfectly evident fact that one of Mr. Dies' customary floor shows would only serve to inflate such a penny-ante movement as "Yankee-American Action" to grotesque proportions. The body politic, racked with internal disorder, requires as never before a scientific, dispassionate diagnosis; instead...