Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enter the theatre you are handed a program that, when unfolded, is exactly thirty-four inches wide. That's to accommodate the title: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Yes, the smash hit of the Cambridge season two years ago, by Arthur L. Kopit '59, has at last, by way of London, reached the New York boards, where it opened not so many days...
...Southeast Asia, ferryboat operators accept dog-eared copies of a magazine called Free World in lieu of money. In Laos, wandering minstrels roam through villages to sing the sad story of how the Communists would ruin the country if they took over. In the new African nations of Somalia and Togo, legislators are lining up for English classes. Around the world, 2,700 newspapers in 86 countries with a total circulation of 100 million are carrying a comic strip named Visit to America, which relates the adventures of a young Asian journeying about...
...Sad Peace. Both sides had withdrawn from previously "final" positions -partly in fear of General Raoul Salan's fanatical Secret Army Organization and its indiscriminate terror. Specifically, the French agreed to recognize the F.L.N. as 1) speaking for Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems; 2) having sovereign power over all Algeria, even the oil-rich Sahara; 3) an honorable foe whose 5,000 captured troops will be treated as prisoners of war, not criminals...
...army as it was beaten in Indo-China at Dien-bienphu. Rather, by tenacity, courage and discipline, the F.L.N. finally forced the French to give up the embattled country. For the future, this military stand-off may hold more hope and less bitterness than a clear-cut victory. The "sad peace" concluded at Evian may yet turn into the kind of "association" that De Gaulle had earlier hoped for, and had linked with "the peace of the brave...
...Algeria, F.L.N. responsables were doing a remarkable job of keeping the mobs from violent reprisals against the colons. The F.L.N. even found it necessary to issue a reassuring press release pointing out that the Moslem side was really gaining advantages in the terms of what is already called the "sad peace." Skyward Guns. In the deserted summer resort of Evian-les-Bains on the Franco-Swiss border, the last details of the sad peace were being worked...