Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy practically declared the dispute a national emergency and took Executive action. This intrusion of the federal government apparently will be permanent, as all groups concerned have asked the President to convene a national sports congress in 1965 to discuss long-range management of U.S. athletic competition. It is sad indeed when even athletics requires the regulation of the Federal government...
...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. This first complete collection reveals the witty playwright not as the foppish caricature he seemed, but as the sad and profound fellow...
Behavior changes are often paradoxical. Many patients with one-side paralysis tend to cry. Dr. Diller asks, "Are you sad?" and is told, "Yes, I'm sad because I can't stop crying." The doctor goes on: "Are you crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute...
...Sad Heart at the Supermarket, by Randall Jarrell. Criticism in a rare admixture of infectious enthusiasm and inci sive judgment...
...French Civil Code, which permits the recovery of gifts if the beneficiary is not properly grateful, and Elizabeth, said Maugham, was surely an ingrate when she sued him for $648,900 for selling nine paintings that she claimed as hers. Said Elizabeth: "It all makes me very sad...