Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of TV comedians is hazardous -and usually brief. But in his rueful, often incoherent way, Buddy is not worried about going stale. For the moment, Liebman's Stanley is just a shiny new toy. Says Buddy, a sad, mad glint lighting up his beady brown eyes: "I don't expect nuttin' from nobody...
...necessary to her owner and is fulfilling as important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats the clown to death the heroine becomes acutely sad, whimpering at any number of things that remind her of the clown. Her owner steals away to resume his solitary wandering. Only years later, when he hears of her death, he suffers for the first time a real sorrow...
However, there are comic scenes, and Alexander Pirogov's Boris manages a few of these, though he is habitually massive-browed and troubled. ("Yet happiness eludes my sad, my tortured soul.") In one of the most delightful scenes, his minister, Prince Shuisky, guilefully played by N. Khanayev, reports that the pretender's forces are nearing Moscow. Catching the drift of the wind. Boris remarks that there is no pretender, the pretender Dmitri is the sovereign, "and Shuisky for perjury shall be quartered...
...eats T.S. Eliot for breakfast and makes you feel some odd sensation akin to indigestion in your intellectual stomach simply because you've been eating lollipops all your life. The evening is made complete by a Junior from M.I.T. who climbed in the window and is--sad to say--NORMAL. I mean of course, IN COMPARISON...
...sad part about the Aswan Dam offer was that it was ever permitted to turn into a game. Here the Nasser regime certainly deserves blame--especially for putting out false rumors of a mythical Soviet offer. But it was Washington which decided, after Egypt's purchase of Czech arms, that Nasser would have to go. To topple his regime, Nasser's major plan for economic development was insultingly rejected, and Washington waited. There is strength in this case, and Dulles' biggest gamble may yet pay off. The West must not forget that it is not playing with a dictator...