Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elaborately expensive but heroically handsome new City Hall in Scollay Square won't be ready for the January, 1968, inaugural.) Aside from the ramifications of her stand on de facto segregation, the opening of old Boston wounds and divisions--just now healing--would have been one of the saddest aspects of Mrs. Hicks' election as Mayor. Under Mayors John B. Hynes (1950-1959) and John F. Collins (1960-1968) the split between the city government and Boston's Establishment healed. A Harvard diploma ceased to be a liability for a man dealing with the city government. With Mrs. Hicks...
...Governor Kerner asked "why one American assaults another American, why violence is inflicted on people of our cities, why the march to an ideal America has been interrupted by bloodshed and destruction." Trying to answer these questions, he said, would be his "saddest mission." Not to try, as Chairman Kerner and his commission of course knew, would be still sadder...
MOZART: FANTASIA AND SONATA IN C MINOR AND SONATA NO. 8 IN A MINOR (Westminster). Daniel Barenboim, the peripatetic Israeli prodigy who, at 24, travels all over the world meeting the insatiable demand for recitals, plays three of the most brilliant, and saddest, of Mozart's works for the piano. The album offers great music well played-which is something to cheer about...
...real case against Lucy is not that she is "unsympathetic"-some of the greatest characters in fiction are-but that she is theatrically unsatisfying and an ear-jarring bore. Saddest of all, Philip Roth's second novel starts beautifully, with a fine evocation of the Wisconsin mood and climate and the skillful and sympathetic drawing of Willard Carroll, an assistant postmaster, one of the few "good" men in contemporary fiction. But then Lucy, Carroll's granddaughter, takes over in a truly venomous fashion, and the book strives embarrassingly to become a Midwestern Madame Bovary. It is bewildering that...
...writing on the wall for the thousands of my fellow white South Africans who will no doubt read it. Perhaps the greatest tragedy in South Africa is that there are so many sensible white South Africans who turn a deliberately blind eye to one of history's saddest, most inhuman situations...