Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Saroyan, who has been rather uncommunicative since the prewar days when he dashed off short stories between breakfast and lunch, broke into the San Francisco Examiner with a sad short-short, among the real-estate-for-sale ads: "Approximately 30-year-old well-built ranchhouse . . . 30 acres . . . No garage, no barn . . . heating apparatus out of order . . . 12-party line . . . no bus . . . plenty of squirrels. Owner paid only $32,000 . . . He is keeping six or seven acres for himself as a monument to his real-estate sharpness. Will sell balance for $35,000. If interested have head examined, or telephone...
Green Peas. Among the 19 ministers in De Gasperi's new government was sad-eyed, scholarly Giuseppe Saragat, who would try to see that those promises were carried out. His "Party of the Little Green Peas"* had won nearly half of Italy's four million Socialist voters from Communist Collaborator Pietro Nenni. Saragat was in the new cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of Mercantile Marine...
Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
...intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...
...still one of the wonders of the movie world. The plain raw slapstick and character comedy are the best to be found-except in better Disneys-since the comic masters of silence. And in every opportunity for the eerie, the cruel, the ghostly, the terrifying, the darkly and mysteriously sad, genuine creative inspiration jumps to life...