Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which is rather sad considering the ever-popular material inherent in the story: World War II, Paris, a good-guy Nazi (and quite a few bad-guy Nazis), underground intrigues, and a triumphant deliverance. Hitler has ordered Paris destroyed if it cannot be held--the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, all of it. Even disciplined portly General von Choltitz (Gert Forbe) balks at the task. Finally (because he comes to the conclusion that Hitler is mad) he betrays the city to the Allies and it's all over but the shouting. Producer Ray Stark could have made a documentary...
...British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that might be called the Sad Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero is a 23-year-old dwarf whose chief...
...dabbles in everything from opium smuggling to world domination. What is it up to this time? No less, it immediately turns out, than blackmailing Britain out of 100 million pounds -- the price demanded for returning two atomic bombs hidden at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Bond, I am sad to say, survives an endless series of fights and saves both the British treasury and the city of Miami, which SPECTURE was planning to annihilate to prove it wasn't kidding...
Gift Certificates. Despite their efforts, Eastern trains continue to run a sad second to the still grand lines of the West. The Santa Fe last year spent $8,000,000 on new dome cars for its El Capitan from Chicago to Los Angeles and its San Francisco Chief, also refurbished its famed Super Chief. The Santa Fe now offers gift certificates for train-trip presents and, for $12, a meal-ticket book good for all five meals on trains between Chicago and Los Angeles...
...story, he says enigmatically: "I have learned a great deal from living, yet virtually nothing from my life." The secret, no doubt, lies somewhere in the ruins of old Austria-Hungary-but that was in a foreign country, and besides, the youth is dead. A sad émigré survives, whose melancholy wisdom it is to say: "It is safer to dream of the past than of the future...