Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personal-File Tragedy. The text for Black's speeches was a Stanford student's personal file, the dry paper chronology of what Black called one of the saddest stories he had ever seen: a parent pushing his son toward a prestige college so hard that the kid broke down. The file began with a letter on the stationery of a large corporation, signed by the president, which requested a college application blank for his son and added in a guileless-looking P.S. that the boy's mother was a Stanford alumna. Next, with thanks for the dean...
Minimum Pay. "To me," said former New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton writing in the British weekly Spectator, "the saddest spectacle of the newspaper strike has been the sight of so many of my old friends on television, head up, eyes front, body sagging, attempting spontaneity in the pronouncement of words they composed two days ago and have read over seven times since." One of Columnist Kempton's old friends was Kempton himself, and he did not like either the sight or the experience...
...deeply touching in their sincerity and warmth, and evoke a vivid picture of Wolfson's Harvard--Widener Library, "Wolfson's table" at the Faculty Club, the Square, and the University (now Harvard Square) Theater. It is at once one of the great things about Harvard and one of the saddest that these everyday sights mean so many different things to so many people. To Wolfson pre-eminently they are a setting for "his work," a work so astounding one is staggered just reading a brief account...
...piano, Silverstein and Kirchner lost their coordination several times and displayed poor balance generally. Kirchner had rather sloppy technique, especially in scale passages. The Trio II in B flat Major K. 502, caused them still more trouble in keeping together, and they gave a generally perfunctory reading. Perhaps the saddest commentary on the evening was the number of people who left (unwisely, as it turned out) before the work best performed: the Sonata Concertante...
...saddest result of the cold war that scientific impartiality might be considered vaguely unpatriotic. But it would be tragic if such suspicions obstructed those efforts which could regear the Geneva negotiations toward areas of possible agreement. President Kennedy should, before ordering the resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, propose a list of reputable and responsible American scientists willing to implement an inspection scheme. Such an initiative would publicly weaken the contention that there are "no neutral men," and at the same time, undercut the recurrent fear that inspection scheme. Such an initiative would publicly weaken the contention that there...