Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking back on the grueling work and tragic loss of life, Italian Operations Chief Loris Corbi spoke for his half of the vast Franco-Italian project: "This event is like a chorus, now sad, then happy, sometimes soft and sometimes loud, sung by all the people of Italy for all the people of Europe...
...Glory of Blame. Away from her small circle, taste ran to still deeper reaches of the macabre. Newspapers approached the frontiers of necrophilia with old cheesecake photos of her, then turned sly cameras to the inside of her coffin, the shambles of her home, the sad wealth of her sleeping-pill collection. Using a hidden camera, one photographer stole a shot of her toes as she was placed in a steel drawer at the morgue. Reporters took grave delight in noting that her temporary address was Crypt 33, where a cold description of "the fabulous figure" could be read...
...dramatic excerpts of a master of 20th century theater. Mixing surrealism and college humor, young (25) Arthur Kopit has mounted a splendidly zany attack on Mom behind the jawbreaking title, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hun? You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Having recently crossed the 500 mark in performances, Jean Genet's audacious, exotic, unsentimental and eloquent dramatization of the color question, The Blacks, is still being enacted with undiminished zest and style...
Even if Higgins had his team running as much as it should Boston couldn't hope to be too more higher in the standings. Desperate no-hitters by right-handers Earl Wilson and Bill Monbouquette, Red Sox pitching has been a sad disappointment this season. 1961's Rookie of the Year Don Schwall has been terrible. When he's gotten the ball within three feet of strike zone--which doesn't happen all the time -- he's been bombed...
...young man-for Agee remained a young man to the day of his death, with all a young man's prodigal energies and frustrated intentions. In his introduction, Critic Robert Phelps calls Agee "a born, sovereign prince of the English language." But the letters proved in a sad way, that the language was his sovereign. Agee had an angel's talent, and he wrestled all his life to bring it to earth...