Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inviting the heads of Israel's Christian churches and communities to a New Year's tea, sad-faced old President Itzhak ben-Zvi of Israel begged his guests to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." The peace of Jerusalem-and the Middle East -was standing in the need of prayer last week...
...Macfadden (TIME, Oct. 24), the present boss of the $5,000,000 Macfadden Foundation (set up by Macfadden in 1931) claimed that there is much astew about nothing. Noting an $18,000 federal claim for back taxes on Macfadden's es tate, Foundation President Edward Bodin stated the sad tidings: "He was actually broke, as he claimed, before he died. Judging by investigations so far, it is unlikely that the estate of Bernarr Macfadden will be able to meet the burial costs and legal expenses...
Oberleutnant Franz Marc, artillery observer in the Kaiser's Fifth Army, stood tall, handsome and sad one day in early March 1916 in a hush of the great battle for Verdun. "One chews constantly," he had written his wife, "on that ever more baffling riddle: how this war is possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely...
...Ching Foo, she ended up starving in a New York tenement. All she had left, before her death, was Ludwig's $20,000 diamond necklace, and she was bilked of that. The book, unfortunately, is written by Author Holdredge in an infatuated period prose. It is all very sad and wonderful in its own ludicrous...
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan, a French girl with an existentially sad face, had a trivial triangle plot, raised above itself by unerringly accurate writing-and by the reader's chilling realization that its worldly insights were achieved by a 17-year-old author. It was the most successful book from outside the English-speaking world. The Germans continued to disappoint (Gerhard Kramer's We Shall March Again, and Heinrich Büll's Adam, Where Art Thou?), but other countries contributed moving items...