Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sad, this movement afoot in the Christian society to abolish the expensive, massive and majestic cathedrals [Jan. 12]. In this day and age of constant stimuli, of incessant noise and overpopulation with pressing, vulgar crowds it is indeed unfortunate. Heretofore they represented one of the few remaining places where a man could go to think quietly, in relative safety-and be alone...
Baker's wit only partially conceals an earnest preoccupation with the sad state of the U.S. as he sees it. Too much is synthetic and contrived, he insists, from the current sterile search for the "real self" to the bloodless, painless violence that saturates TV. Everything is produced to be consumed and discarded, and he puts his column in the same category. "There is something sneaky about us," he writes, proving once again that the best humorists are often arch-pessimists. "It is almost as if we were determined to come and go without leaving a footprint...
...character man-woman play is now a Broadway staple. Lawrence Holofcener's Before You Go ranks with Two for the Seesaw and The Owl and the Pussycat as the best of the genre. Wry, perceptive, honest, sad, funny and tender, it is compassionately discerning about two people who are not quite wise to themselves...
...Joyce's notes do not quote more than 200 words of text. (The usual request: not more than 500 words without special permission.) As Joyce's manuscript runs to only 3,000 words, the request seems not only reasonable but prudent. Sample: "The heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?" This is followed by a blank quarter-page, then: "Long lewdly leering lips; dark-blooded molluscs." (Joyce appears, quite properly, to have clammed up at this bluepoint...
...shocking two point victory over the Quakers--who beat Harvard by 13 points--was Dartmouth's first win of the season; they have lost nine. Unless Harvard curbs, its sad habit of throwing away ballgames, it is quite likely that Dartmouth will score its second victory tonight...