Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Abram Chayes '43, who prosecuted the U.S. on behalf of Nicaragua at The Hague, said yesterday that it is a very sad day for the U.S., considering our position as a country that abides by international...
Welles was 70 last May, so it is probably time for people to stop calling him an aging boy wonder and recognize that his is one of the saddest stories of success and failure in American life. Sad because such enormous promise has remained so unfulfilled for so long. Welles was 16 when he talked his way into his first starring role at Dublin's Gate Theater; 18 when he toured the U.S. as Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became...
...fall would butcher me up or kill me one. I just laid down on the side, right on the edge and just hung on. The train went on by, and I walked back to find my dog, and there he lay across that rail. It sure was a sad night...
Meanwhile, a band swung into all the old sad songs about mamma, lost loves and the perils of strong drink. The crowd continued to swell. Every few minutes a car filled with a family would come coughing down the dirt road to the cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop...
Last week's events marked the sad end of a chapter in Apple's history that began happily in the spring of 1983. Convinced that his company needed managerial help in doing battle with mighty IBM, Jobs spent several months trying to persuade Sculley, a marketing whiz who was then president of Pepsi- Cola, to become Apple's chief executive. In a ritual that resembled an old- fashioned courtship, the two men spent weekends together, roaming New York's Central Park and strolling through museums. The executives seemed so well matched that when talking to others they would often finish...