Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writers from saying what they think, and since when has it kept intelligent American readers from judging such books on their merits? Any day that we have to judge American books ay this one criterion-whether they will be read with "great glee by anti-Americans"-will be a sad day for American books, and for America...
...closest advisers is bespectacled, English-speaking Jigme Dorji, 37, one of the delegation visiting Nepal. Although he is the King's brother-in-law, he has no title. "Just call me Mister," he told TIME Correspondent Jim Greenfield in Nepal last week. Elder Statesman Jigme told a sad story of modern influences overtaking tiny Bhutan...
Junior Myth. Novelist Murdoch writes in the comic intellectual tradition of the early Aldous Huxley, but now the sad young Huxleymen of the '20s have grown up to be desperately dim middle-aged men in dim jobs. Murdoch's subjects are transfixed at a moment in history when those who inherit a great tradition are not enriched and strengthened by the past, but mocked and enfeebled...
...Battle (your punctuation) reflected in many ways the difficulty of appreciating academic freedom, and it is a sad revelation that Princeton, despite enormous pressure, was unwilling to clarify the meaning of the idea. William C. Brady '57 A. LeRoy Ellison '58 Bruce A. Heck '56 James H. Manahan '58 Frank R. Rossiter...
...until Sickles was 93 that his troubles began to hem him in. He had lost $4,000,000 on Wall Street, and the sad fact was that he was $28,000 short in his accounts with the New York State Monuments Commission, which he headed. When eviction threatened, he hung three American flags out of his Fifth Avenue window and awaited the sheriff. He died broke at 95, with little but his medals and a fame that already belonged to another age. He may not have been the ideal leader of a boys' club or the neighborhood Cub troop...