Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst enemy, namely, dear old Bertie McCormick. To many who live in and around Chicago, the Tribune is bought and read strictly for the comic strips. The rest of the paper, in particular the editorials, would be funny if the whole thing wasn't so sad, unfortunately so because there are undoubtedly many people who read the colonel's hogwash and believe...
Bosch was a sad, pious man with a consuming interest in the sins and stupidities of his fellows, and alternated debunking caricatures, such as The Magician, with huge, opalescent nightmare pictures which foreshadowed surrealism. The neat realism that characterized Flemish painting was as foreign to him as it was to the early masters of the Italian Renaissance...
Against the Fuchida-W.C.T.U. analysis there still stood the conclusion of the Government's Pearl Harbor investigation commission: liquor did not play a noteworthy part in the debacle of Pearl Harbor. The sad truth was that the forces on Oahu had been no better prepared Saturday morning than Sunday morning...
...powerful brake to the adoption of new ideas . . . [There is] lack of a coordinated system of scientific and technological education in this country . . . The buying up and suppression of patents and discoveries to protect equipment from becoming obsolete has also been known to happen . . . It is a sad reflection that the urgent demands of modern war can produce advances that might otherwise take many years to develop, especially in the costly and uncertain experimental stages...
...Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...