Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more government [TIME, July 13] is part of the very thing that has discredited this once honorable appellation so much. I still believe that most of the time a true liberal should find himself on the side of the greater rather than the lesser individual freedom. It is a sad commentary on the state of confusion of our ideals that nowadays many conservatives are more liberal than too many of our so-called "liberals" of today...
...believe in a small community in which nobody can be sad, fall ill, have his birthday, or be tactless, without being consoled, nursed, celebrated or criticized by all ... When we return to Villigst we may be excited about our work, happy about our possible success and achievement. We then feel we need evening prayers as we need our daily bread. In praying, in singing a religious song, in listening to the Bible, we regain our balance. We recognize our limitations, and humbleness before God sets our human pride back into the right perspective...
...whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator for 14 hours, but had to flee the country for lack of popular support. Brought back from exile in France by the British after World War II, the sad-faced, fiercely mustached old soldier won the premiership three times (1945, 1950, 1951), once in a surprise victory on a platform favoring the Marshall Plan, NATO and "soak the rich" taxes, vainly tried to conciliate Greece's Communist guerrillas, never stayed in office longer than a year...
Adventist in Los Angeles. "People tell me I should never end a show with such a sad number," she says. "Most entertainers end with a life-of-the-party number. Not me. I leave them way down. Sometimes I see people crying in the audience. I guess people like...
...tributes to the British character, a splendid essay on a family pet (A Brown Owl) which once stared down Thomas Hardy. This is a book to remind readers of any age of the rich resources of written English. If nothing else, Author Tomlinson proves that the informal essay, that sad casualty of modern literature, can be as effective as a heart-to-heart talk...