Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky summed it up best a few months ago, when he told a gathering of students: "You are here for four years, I am here for life, and the institution is here forever." You cannot argue with that logic. The truth of it is obvious, and ineffably sad...
...found: the vast blue sky of Africa, and the rolling plains of the 1950s America in which both Ellellou and Updike attended college. This makes the most beautiful part of the book, striking in its images and complex in its construction; Updike interweaves flashback and narrative to force a sad comparison between the America that believed so deeply when Ike said it was happy, and the nation that since developed out of that same era of uneasy, deluded simplicity. The narrative wanders, like Ellello*u, through a landscape of desolate beauty and frightening foreshadowings, and finally comes back...
...have never lied to the birds. It is time to leave. He says he knows how to go, that it is a long flight and some will die, but he is going, so is Birdie, and they are leaving in the early morning. I listen and I'm sad. The birds are excited...
...served this country in a way that is evident in every facet of American life from restaurants to stores, to schools and even the United States' ambassadorial seat in the United Nations. He was a man who dearly loved his country and cared for its people. It is a sad and disgraceful thought that this country refuses officially to remember...
...American people want. But they are also teaching a lot of people how things were. A strange cycle develops, with fond memories becoming part of the collective memory of an era, until all that is left of such an era are these one-sided memories. It's rather sad to watch movies in which present day movie stars yearn for the good old days, when "the movies really meant something." It is the same sadness you get when you hear the formula-rock and roll bands eulogizing how the original music is. But as anyone who saw Elvis grow...