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Word: sadnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three day visit in Cairo, went on to Syria for a day, Iraq for two more days and then back to Egypt for more talks with Gamal Abdel Nasser. The mileage covered was impressive, but the cause of "peace" gained precious little ground. "The situation at present," lamented a sad Tito in Alexandria, "is an impasse." Tito had come to the Middle East with a compromise proposal calling for the Arabs to recognize Israel's right to exist as a nation and for Israel, in turn, to pull out of all its "new territories." As Tito might have expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arabs: Still a Fever | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...wildly contented audience and sends them home with the willies. A "Day in the Life" is no joke; all the buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering...

Author: By Billy Shears, | Title: Sgt. Pepper's One and Only | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...innocence, affections and jumble of family emotions. Only a Dostoevsky could do justice to the story of the Romanovs and Rasputin. Author Massie's history covers two terrible decades in European history and recreates the doomed Romanovs with admirable clar ity. The icons have gone, but a sad faded photograph remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nicky & Alicky | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...someone does, but all we who do not know see is smoldering rubble, homeless people, and the corpses of those who were the sniper's prey. There is nothing more frightening than seeing what appeared to be a sane world turn into a grotesque horror picture. I am sad. I cannot even begin to describe how sad I am to see what has happened to my people. I will be proud to tell my children that I was alive when the first astronaut went up into space, and how I saw science and medicine advance at an unbelievable speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

There is much that could be done in the cities, however, within this sad situation. Urban administrators, for example, could have used their influence to assure that Negroes received the same quality of municipal services as whites. Until very recently, this grating inequity was ignored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ghetto Blot: Riot Potential | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

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