Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAHMS: GERMAN REQUIEM (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). "Blessed are they that mourn," softly sings the chorus, and soon the sad saraband begins ("For all flesh is as grass"). At length the black solemnity is relieved by the soaring soprano voice of Gundula Janowitz singing "I will see you again." A powerful, rhythmically relentless performance by Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein...
Shoeless Reverence. One reason for Cambodia's penury is the Prince's giveaways-some of them perfectly worthwhile if only his treasury could support them. Recently Sihanouk took to the radio in a rage over the sad state of Cambodian education (national literacy rate: 30%). Snookie demanded the immediate establishment of five new universities, including an Institute of Oceanography (despite the fact that Cambodia has only a tiny fishing fleet and a piddling navy). The Education Ministry dutifully drew up plans and asked for 385 million riels ($11 million). Sihanouk snapped back that the project should cost...
...ROSEWATER by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 217 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $4.95. "God damn it," says Eliot Rosewater, custodian of what was once the 14th largest fortune in the U.S. ($87,472,033.61), "you've got to be kind." He is that almost archetypical American figure, the do-gooding sad millionaire, and he embellishes restrooms with melancholy graffiti: "If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable." His heart smolders with love for the unlovable-volunteer fire men, science-fiction writers, the entire population of Rosewater County, Ind., his ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money...
...most intriguing facet of Operation Match is the motivation behind those who tried it. "I was curious," sad one 'Cliffie. "Besides, Phil paid...
Analyzing the Alienated. As the comics have grown up, people have begun to take them more seriously. In 1963, Rome's Communist newspaper L'Unita ran a ponderous analysis of Peanuts in which it concluded that Lucy is a Fascist and all the Peanuts are sad little "alienated" Americans. "It is true," concedes Communist Critic Gianni Toti, "that the comics have their own particular visible universality and are therefore democratic. It is true that during the war Tarzan left to fight Hitler, the Phantom was mobilized to fight the Japanese, and Mandrake engaged in counterespionage. It is true...