Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition-and about 80% of these were either mystery-plotting hacks or vulgarizers of other works. Moaned he: "Who will deny that in this domain, statistics lead to the absurd? The problem of true writers would not have been resolved. There are many...
...Anger and urgency assail me," snaps Harvard College's Dean John Monro about a problem that roils educators across the country. It is the sad fact-and the underside of U.S. education-that hundreds of thousands of talented and sometimes brilliant youngsters not only lack the means to go to college but do not even aspire to go. Many among them are what sociologists gingerly call the "culturally deprived"-Negroes, Puerto Ricans, poor whites-who do not know that they are bright. Others are slum and farm kids ignored by crowded colleges because they go to "wrong" schools...
...times) and thinks he could not stand "that waaa-waaa noise kids make." Nevertheless he plans to leave most of his money to the children of friends. As he grows older, he treasures both silence and privacy more: "What's the point of seeing people those poor, sad, beautiful faces with all their heartbreaking troubles...
...written for performance at Radcliffe on Senior Class Day. The other three items, of which more below, were The Beloved, by Timothy '60; The Card Game, by John D. Asher '61; and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur L. Kopit...
...century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play by Chekhov, the opera had to do with a )': drunken bum masquerading as an admiral at a wedding party. Exposed when he fails to identify a snatch of Morse code, the -phony admiral exits, announcing with sad dignity: "If I were really a nobleman, I would challenge you all to a duel." The Admiral was studded with the kind of lush melody the Italians love-Andreoli borrowed much of the opera's outdated style from Mascagni...