Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter saw no reason to change any of their plans. But his father stormily forbade the marriage. "She's the same girl I fell in love with," insisted Walter. And so they were married, and have raised a close-knit family of two children-Terry, 23, an attractive, sad-eyed daughter, and Peter, 20, a husky, quiet...
...race finally started at three or so. The Outing Club had forgotten the stop watches, so we had to use regular ones. Sad to say, Dartmouth beat us, although they were pretty drunk...
...interest. There is hardly a plot: a sick, lonely, old woman struggles along a road to meet her husband at the railroad station; they start off, then stop to wrangle and reminisce. As for characterization, the minor characters are mediocre comic types, and the old couple merely querulous and sad. Waiting for Godot was even more deficient in plot and character, as these terms are usually understood, but the newer work somehow misses the odd, grim delightfulness that exempted Godot from all the usual demands that are made on a play. All That Fall should be worth reading, and even...
...bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
...three wise old men: in Seoul, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, 83, watched fireworks and a military parade celebrating his birthday; in Manhattan, energetic ex-Senator Herbert Lehman, 80, conceded that "I do have a tendency to get tired if I stay up past 2 a.m."; in Budapest, sad-eyed, flinty Josef Cardinal Mindszenty turned 66, spent a quiet day, his 511th as a refugee in the U.S. legation...