Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic and sad that Lyndon Johnson, friend of the Negroes, will be defeated in November by an uneducated white populace outraged over the continuing violent demands of crusading Negroes. The ill timing of the leap forward in the civil rights field will unfortunately result in leaps backward in many fields with the inauguration of President Goldwater...
This Actors,Studio production attains a sense of loneliness, emptiness, inertia, and the parched, anguishing inability to enjoy life but only from moment to moment rather than continuously. Chekhov is the drama's Chopin, fragile, lyrical, nocturnal, romantic, ineffably sad. This mood music hovers in the air of this Broadway revival, but it does not permeate the play...
...Three Sisters. If the Hemingway hero was the man to whom things happened, the Chekhov hero and heroine are people to whom nothing happens. His Sisters exist in a sad purgatory of might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand...
PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER. For a wordless but eloquent little film called Parable, Writer-Director Rolf Forsberg chose a setting much like the fair itself. A sad-eyed clown in whiteface trails behind a circus troupe, collects a host of friends and a slew of enemies. Finally, when he frees some human puppets from their cruel manipulator and takes their place, he is slain. Forsberg's film is thoughtful and beautifully handled...
...merely because he is the Senate's most practiced and professional orator but largely because he is the shrewd, patient negotiator whose efforts, perhaps more than anyone else's, had made a favorable cloture vote likely. With great deliberation Dirksen took off his tortoise-shell spectacles, revealing his sad, bloodhound eyes underlined by deep, dark pouches. In his massive left hand, its little finger flourishing a green jade ring, he held a twelve-page speech he had typed the night before on Senate stationery...