Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-films ever made in Italy is Director Dino Risi's study of a raffish Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) who jet-propels a shy young law student (Jean Louis Trintignant) into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death...
These listeners then, and not the speakers' failure to resolve the relationship of the College to individual morality proved the saddest disappointment of the evening. Goodman engaged them with his views, but manipulated them with his mannerisms. He flattered them with sincere intimacy, like a permissive father might his rakish son, and soon they were tittering at the mention of intercourse, snickering at each four-letter word like preppies at a locker-room joke...
...saddest fact about U.S. education is that it repels those most in need of it. Last month President Kennedy launched a drive to urge the million youngsters who dropped out of school over the past twelve months to go back in September. School officials, teachers and guidance counselors are cooperating in the campaign. But it will be doing well if it persuades even 1% of that million to return to classrooms. And by September 1964, another million will have dropped...
...Dinah Shore and launched her into a reedy rendition of See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet. At Hypnoteuse Collins' suggestion, Lloyd Bridges went swimming through the audience with a plastic lung on his back. She suggested to Steve Allen that he was viewing one of the saddest movies ever filmed-and watched with approval while her subject dissolved soggily into tears. In one more practical demonstration of her art, she cut Pitcher Sandy Koufax down from one and a half packs to a mere three cigarettes...
...Indignant Cardinal. The ban was a case of caution carried to outrage, and it was with outrage that U.S. Catholics responded. At least 23 Catholic newspapers lamented what Wisconsin's Green Bay Register calls "one of the saddest pages in the history of intellectual Catholicism in the U.S." One editor denounced C.U.'s "authoritarianism"; another labeled the university a "citadel of mediocrity." Snapped Bishop John K. Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio: "Legitimate controversy should not be sidestepped by a center of learning. Suppressing views is no service to truth." In a stiff letter to Rector...