Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge dared not violate her wishes by installing sewer connections. The great elms which gave the house its name had grown up into the sort of forest one finds in Grimm tales, and inside, each of the twelve large rooms was done up in gloomy Victorian style--a sad fate for what was once a bright, airy Colonial country house...
...GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Vassar's cleverest alumna tells all about eight girls who might have graduated with her into the confused Depression world of New York in the '30s. Though it is brilliantly fictionalized sociology of a sad period, Vassar may think of it as a class portrait by Charles Addams...
Kool-Aid & Custer. Jackie Vernon, now working in New York, is so polite, humble and self-effacing that he risks tears instead of laughter. Raised in East Harlem and educated at The Bronx's Theodore Roosevelt High School, he has a mild voice with a sad urban accent, and his heavy-jowled blinking face has a kind of massive resemblance to Jonathan Winters. If it is true that all comedians and clowns are deeply and utterly defeated, then Jackie Vernon manages to suggest that he is the archetype of his tribe...
...rainbow ends There's going to be a place, brother, Where the world can sing all sorts of songs, And we're going to sing together, brother. You and I, though you're white and I'm not. It's going to be a sad song, brother, Because we don't know the tune, And it's a difficult tune to learn. But we can learn, brother, you and I. There's no such tune as a black tune. There's no such tune as a white tune. There...
...sad fact is that 1963 will be a wretched year for wine lovers as well as for the farmers. August in Europe has been one of the wettest on record, and quality is bound to suffer. Instead of ripening under a beneficent sun, the grapes all over France are mildewing on the vine...