Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play is ended on a sad note when William Saroyan decides to lead the dramatic field from a ranch in Arizona and fades out midst the sorrowful strains of "Home On the Range." The play is produced by Louis Eno '44, with Mendy Weisgall of HDC fame, Larry Creshkoff and Lon Weinman taking the leading roles...
This summary by General Douglas MacArthur of the successful Papuan campaign last week won the Army's only four-star field commander editorial plaudits as a new and forceful advocate of air power. But it made many an airman sad...
They were not sad because General MacArthur, not always an enthusiast for air operations, had recognized and proved air power as an adjunct of vast potency to the ground and naval forces. The Germans had proved that in Poland, in the Lowlands and many times since. So, with great virtuosity, had the U.S. Navy...
Doctrine. What made airmen sad was that that was the only recognition made by the Hero of Bataan of war's newest mode of fighting. Douglas MacArthur's conclusion was that with the help of air transport, reconnaissance and bombardment the advance of U.S. fighting men up through the island bases to Japan could be vastly speeded...
...back at his Riversdale home by the next June, sleeping little, writing much, aging fast. His daughter Anne began to beat him at croquet. Down at the Abbey "it was rather sad to see [him] climb the stairs to the boardroom, stopping at the landing to recover breath so that he might make a lordly entrance as of old." He got out his final version of A Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke...