Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, at 80, a sad-faced woman with a failing heart, she died in a Manhattan hospital. She had helped form the manners and mores of the rich, the talented and the glamorously beautiful-though she herself was poor, uneducated, and wore her homeliness like a badge...
...moviegoer care and care deeply what happens to Domenico-and to many more than Domenico. For in this remarkable first film, the work of a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, Domenico is the surrogate of every mother's son who ever sold his labor for a sad little living. With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that begins with a free soul and ends with a wage slave...
Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts is the saga of a cynical writer of a newspaper agony column who is sucked into emotional involvements with his correspondents and almost against his will achieves a kind of faith. Author Wilfrid Sheed's funny, sad, perceptive novel turns the story upside down. It recounts the fate of a magazine writer who starts with a serene, uncluttered faith and, as it slips away from him, tries desperately to become a cynical hack...
Wary Approval. The defense contractors have generally accepted the Pentagon's new approach, with some misgivings about how it will work out in practice. "Our fingers are crossed," says a wary spokesman for the Electronic Industries Association. "We've had a lot of sad experience with front-office policy being ignored or emasculated by the field." McNamara concedes that, if he were still president of Ford, he might be concerned about the new method of evaluating each company separately. "I might not have liked it at first," he says, "but my reaction would have been...
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home...