Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feels Sad...
Maccoby and Abrams stated last night: "We are sorry that the supposed funny men of the Lampoon do not realize that humor is a great panacea for the world's ills and a strategic weapon in the present fight against Communism. It is sad, indeed, that such a petty sense of property has caused the Lampoon to crawl sniveling and whining to the state department. It is a move that can only sour the nation's laughter. For the state department to take a hand in returning the bird would be nothing short of appeasement...
Jomo Kenyatta, a proud, able, warped and lonely man, is a symbol of the sad conflict of civilization and savagery, a leader of his people who used the skills civilization taught him to give savagery a new kind of power. He was an orphan, a ten-year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician...
Flailing gleefully away, they pictured drab city blocks as tumbled lines of bulging, squeezed-in houses, and landscapes as great, uncluttered spaces dotted with trees and Indian tepees. Their figures were frightening and funny by turns-glowering, batlike adults with burning eyes, or sad, dough-faced creatures with bird-thin legs and toothless smiles. The colors were as exuberant as the designs: heads in chartreuse and grey, faces that were half yellow, half blue, with startling vermilion circles under the eyes. One of the favorites was a group project: a huge mural of Charlestown with all the details, including...
...sad fact is that if the generals, admirals and bureaucrats believe this hard enough, they can make it true. No eleven men, even with Congress in agreement, can swing the vast organization run by the Pentagon out of its ruts unless a considerable number of the professionals are persuaded that cuts can be made without hurting efficiency. Last week it was more obvious than ever that President Eisenhower was going to have to help Secretary Wilson by throwing the weight of his military knowledge and prestige against the phalanx of Pentagon brass...