Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think the time has come to fill the sad vacancies in the Sacred College." Thus Pope Pius XII this week addressed about 30 oldtime cardinals who had foregathered, along with the Pontiff, in the Vatican's Consistory Hall. His Holiness read the names of 32 prelates whose domains were scattered from Mozambique to Berlin, from Armenia to Australia (TIME...
...Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...
...Quiet on the Western Front, Author Remarque wrote the great popular novel about World War I. In it the dead of Europe's vast battle graveyards first found their voice. It was written with deep compassion and the sad but tough-fibered cynicism with which compassion deflects the battering blows of the world. Arch of Triumph is no All Quiet on the Western Front. The compassion is still there; the cynicism has deepened. The craftsmanship is expert...
There is a category of news which can be called significant trivia. It is not world shaking. It can be amusing, sad, tragic, inspiring, or downright funny, but it is revealing. It is generally about people. Sometimes it makes headlines, but more often it is buried in the back pages of a local newspaper. TIME likes to report incidents like these because they illuminate-sometimes more brightly than a major news story-the kind of world we live in and the kind of people who make the world what it is. Some examples from TIME...
Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy's day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already thought of preaching as a career-and his first sermon was so bad, the tale goes, that he laughed out loud in the middle of it. He tried law, and flopped again. At 22, in the year 1768, he bought a farm-and failed at that, too. But while his crops went to ruin, he filled his house with waifs, strays and farm kids, and began...