Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Factory work is, indeed, so attractive in People's China that it is sad to read in the People's Daily of July 11th that many parents still think it better for their children to get secondary education than to pass directly from primary school to workbench. Castigating these outworn ideas, the official Communist newspaper warns parents that only a few children can go to secondary schools, and that the party and government will show them that juvenile labour is "equally glorious...
...anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more and more Hollywooden...
Serious & Sad. Cullen underestimated TV cameramen. On Place the Face he is continuously on his feet, but few viewers are aware of his limp. Says Cullen: "To show you how good the camera work is. I've had people stop me on the street and say, 'Hey, Bill, what happened to your leg?' like it happened . over the weekend...
...Thursday night, and merely chat all afternoon Saturday-for this I get three grand a week! You can't help but realize that it's all pretty useless." But this mood is infrequent: "Mostly, I try not to take myself seriously because when I do, I get sad. I've got no beefs. I'm just a guy who's on a good-luck kick and I hope it lasts...
...such places as the Universities of Malaya and Hong Kong, succumb to the blandishments of the Communists and go off to school in Red China. The Communists offer them everything from free books to free clothes. "And so," says Lin, "parents never see their children again. It is very sad." Last year, under the leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige...