Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happen to Indo-China? France's fears deepened when, in February, the Viet Minh Communists forced the French out of Hoa Binh, which Marshal de Lattre had so boldly taken. Since that low point, the military situation has steadied under the firm hand of De Lattre's sad-eyed friend and deputy, General Raoul Salan. Last week the French cabinet confirmed Salan as commander in chief of French forces in Indo-China...
This last article closes with: "The optimists had their rosy decade...Now the reaction has come, and it is sad and bitter." In a way this characterizes The Freeman's outlook--sad and bitter. If this is the American Right, it is not a creative political force...
...ironies in the U.S. position, as Historian Niebuhr sees them, are sad and deep. There is "the irony of an age of science producing global and atomic conflicts and an age of reason culminating in a life-and-death struggle between two forms of 'scientific' politics . . . We are drawn into a situation where the paradise of our domestic security is suspended in a hell of global insecurity . . . Our own nation . . . is less potent to do what it wants in the hour of its greatest strength than it was in the.days of its infancy." Connecting all of these incongruities...
...young man named Paul Gregory happened to drop into a Manhattan bar. He stared entranced at the bar's TV set as Laughton .dramatized his readings by balletlike turnings of his heavy body, ducking his dewlapped chin into his collar, shooting sly glances from his spaniel-sad eyes. Greatly excited, Gregory phoned Laughton at his hotel, went up to see him the next afternoon, and stayed long into the night. By the time he left, he had convinced Laughton that he should go on a cross-country tour and make people pay to hear his readings...
Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...