Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sad Child. A stocky, ruddy-faced man of 57, Levine is a rarity in New York's weary school system. He is a lawyer, a Latin expert, a Talmudic scholar and a musician. Notwithstanding those interests, he gives tireless attention to teaching, even after 34 years in the profession. One of education's foremost functions, argues Levine, is "to build up the child's image of himself," and the foundation for that is to teach children to read. If they fail at reading, he says, they may fail at everything, and the child who cannot read "becomes...
...them. Their deepest roots are not in the Paris streets but in the tavernas of Greece, the souks of Morocco and the wailing wall of Jerusalem. Aznavour has the power to affect an audience the way he does because he sings of a betrayal beyond love, something unutterably sad at the heart of things, the treacherous, tragic nature of life itself...
...University in Greensboro; of injuries suffered when he apparently "lunged into the path" of a passing automobile; near Chapel Hill, N.C. An amusing satirist, he took deadly aim at academic pretension in his novel Pictures from an Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence, fantasy and oblivion...
...other consolations for the Guild, still fewer for the Times. "We don't like the settlement," said Times Vice President Ivan Veit, "but we'll learn to live with it." Kheel had made it clear that the paper's labor-relations department was in sad disarray; it would have to be revamped before it could deal intelligently with the difficulties ahead. Beyond all that, there was the more immediate problem of making up lost advertising revenue and winning back lost readers. And despite their strike benefits, the Guildsmen would be a long time making up what they...
...come, either, because I believe that poverty is particularly moving or poetical. It is not one and not the other. It is three things: Drab. Sad. Grim...