Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...management, the Catskill Mountains could go far. But Comedian Mal Z. Lawrence, who has often played the G, was not buying. "If Jennie were here, she'd cry," he decided. His colleague Mac Robbins, a fast man with a one-liner, was playing it andante today: "It's a sad, sad time. What can you say? It's the passing of what used to be. The third generation of Grossingers wanted out." So out that none of Jennie's children or nephews or cousins were in evidence. Of all the bygone headliners, Eddie Fisher was the only one who showed...
...Beebe, Walter Lippmann, Grantland Rice. Abraham Lincoln courted the paper's support; so did Lyndon Johnson. The Tribune was glamorous in part because of its precarious, hand-to-mouth existence. The paper's death in 1966 lent its history the final stuff of which enduring myths are made: a sad ending...
...sad fact is that many alleged "reforms" of rent control do not recognize or address this problem. Instead, they are attempts to gut rent control in the name of reforming it. Councilor Walsh's proposal (The Crimson, October 18), is a glaring example. While questioning what kinds of tenants by income or occupational status should be protected and targetting less than half of presently controlled units to poverty level tenants though vacancy decontrol, the Walsh package misconstrues the intent of rent control, and tosses yet another red herring in the path of real needed reform. Under the Walsh plan...
...patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more noble qualities, who is as kind and thoughtful and unselfish. He's always thinking about the country and not himself." For Julie Nixon Eisenhower, both her parents have suffered enough...
...rally that Reagan had been waiting "like a thief in the night to veto legislation that clearly has the support of the American people." California Congressman Norman Mineta maintained that neither Congress nor the public would tolerate "this indecent act." Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared, "It is sad that the President persists in locking himself into a failed and lonely policy that has put America on the side of racism in South Africa." In effect acknowledging the criticism, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole remarked, "It might have been a bit easier politically if the President had just swallowed hard...