Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe it should seem sad that a man has no frame of reference other than baseball, or that any one could be so single faceted as to return home from playing a doubleheader only to sit up in the car all night listening to the one radio that gets the West Coast games...
Lance Morrow's Essay on daydreams [June 28] illustrates a sad fact of modern life. Often we deny our most basic needs and desires by settling for second best. The antiself represents our true instincts before they are crushed by society and forced to retreat to the background...
...that toward the end of her life, E.R. was offered $35,000 to make a margarine commercial for television. She translated the fee into CARE packages, decided she could save 6,000 lives, and made the commercial. Later she reported that "the mail was evenly divided. One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." -ByJohn Skow
...this ardent puritan reconcile her contradictions? It is the one question neglected by the conscientious Miller, a Marquette historian who got to know Day while writing a study of the Catholic Worker movement. He owes himself and his reader a hypothesis instead of the oddly sad tension he leaves in the air surrounding the halo of his admirable overachiever. We feel her humanitarianism for ourselves. Her ecstasy (religious or otherwise) we have to take Miller's word for. Was she ever quite at ease with herself-her selves...
...typically fraught with inflamed sensibility are Ingrid Bergman's narration (My Story) of her long, racking breakup with Roberto Rossellini and Joan Fontaine's accounts (No Bed of Roses) of alienation from her mother and estrangement from her sister Olivia de Havilland. Writes Fontaine of the sad encounter that followed Olivia's winning of the 1946 Academy Award for Best Actress: "After Olivia delivered her acceptance speech and entered the wings, I, standing close by, went over to congratulate her ... She took one look at me, ignored my outstretched hand, clutched her Oscar to her bosom...