Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Man of the Year is neither the winner of a popularity contest nor necessarily a great or good man, but one who has "done the most to change the news for better or for worse." As TIME'S story said, this man in 1951, "sad to relate," was Premier Mossadegh...
...Services Rendered. It may be a sad comeuppance for the proud and potent Hospitallers, whose origins go back to the Crusades. In the 12th century, they were well established in Jerusalem as an order of brothers caring for poor and sick pilgrims, and with a contingent of their own armed knights to protect them. For their services, the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, as they were then called, won historical privileges from the Holy See, e.g., independence of all spiritual and temporal authority save that of the Pope, exemption from tithes, and the right to their own chapels, clergy...
...very clear that Universal Studios are taking advantage of an intrinsically sad situation to load on every tear-provoking scene in their files. One good example is the shot of a blind soldier hearing a letter from his son; the boy was born while the soldier was at war. "I've never seen him," says the soldier, staring with sightless eyes. "And I never will...
...Sad Eye for the Street. Gropius believes that "the result from a well-oiled team is greater than the sum of their ideas." The Bauhaus proved him right, for the work produced there in the '20s still sets standards for functional elegance in industrial design. He has established no such all-star team at Harvard, but in 13 years Gropius has made it the nation's No. 1 architectural school...
...along a big street that is lined for miles & miles with filling stations and restaurants that have absolutely no relationship to the setting, a hodgepodge of ugliness ... Or some suburban developer comes along, cutting down the trees, bulldozing the site and befouling our habitat." A purist with a sad, cold eye, Gropius believes that the main reason for the architectural ugliness he finds everywhere is "inertia of the heart. Man still clings to some visible reminder of Grandpa...