Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That's been her diversion every four o'clock for three centuries of Cambridge afternoons. Her young men file in--Apathetic, Beat, Sad, Angry, Intense, or just plain tired--and she teaches them to be gentlemen, for gentlemen will save the world...
...principal message of this first novel by 26-year-old Radcliffe Graduate Rona Jaffe: heaven no longer protects the working girl, and the corner drugstore is not always successful either. Author Jaffe's working girls are all the sad young women who splash to Manhattan like tender young salmon, desperately eager to find a man and spawn, in wedlock but not necessarily in Westchester. In the meantime they take office jobs and go cummings' Cambridge ladies one worse by living two to a furnished soul...
Sporting Life's major crusade is against tote boards, which are gradually replacing Britain's famed bookies, with their derby hats, their rhyming slang-and their ads in Sporting Life. Writes Clements of the board: "Uninspired, uninspiring. To see the stolid, sad-faced queues lined up to bet on numbers at prison windows, the somber ritual repeated if, perchance, they are concerned with the payout-it is a dreary business...
...Radio" (clandestine): "Since the murder of Feisal and Abdul Illah, Hussein has become a victim of continuous dreams or horrifying delusions. There are stories of Hussein having fits of hysteria. He beats his side whenever he has these fits. Listen, Hussein, our people are happy, and not sad about the murder of Feisal, Abdul Illah and Nuri asSaid. No black flags will be flown when you meet the same fate...
...ever absorbed such deserved and damning criticism. All summer long the twelve-year-old television industry has been clobbered by critics and cold-shouldered by advertisers. Last week it took its worst tongue lashing yet. TV, reported Variety in its annual radio-television review and preview, is in such sad shape that the tube lights are going out in living rooms all across the land...