Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian aid but spurns the comfort of heaven to sigh for her lost lover. The stretches between such moments are bare and boring. Moreover, Bunuei's anticlerical polemics add up to nothing more than creaky village atheism dressed in sombrero and serape...
...perversely in the genre of the thriller. Time was when characters were simply good or bad, threatening or threatened. But nowadays it is difficult to tell a real villain from a societal victim; too often the bewildered reader is caught between a hard shudder of fear and a soft sigh of compassion...
Collective Sigh. Though Marcuse claims to be basically Marxist, he has also fallen under attack in the Soviet Union, where the wave of European student revolutions has met with anything but comradely applause. In a fiercely worded attack on "werewolves" who are "blasphemously using Marx's name," the Russian party organ Pravda recently accused Marcuse of trying to "introduce confusion in the ranks of the fighters against the old world." In fact, Pravda has a good deal more than confusion to worry about: today's young rebels against the Establishment include in their targets the bureaucratic structure...
Harvard President Nathan Pusey has been known to sigh in private about the amount of time he must spend picking new deans for his university. There are nine major deans in all, and there have been twelve changes since Pusey took over...
...poor thing but mine own," sighed Britain's former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 73, speaking with characteristic nonchalance about the recently published second volume of his memoirs, The Blast of War, 1939-1945. The P.M. had journeyed to New York for the American publication of the book-and a concurrent honorary degree from Columbia University-but his efforts at self-promotion were light to the point of weightlessness. The whole subject of statesmanlike memoirs, he said, invariably made him think of Arthur Balfour's critique of a Churchill memoir: "Winston has written four volumes about himself and called...