Word: sobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried to flee, but gas-masked Guardsmen blocked the exits. The ubiquitous dust terrified women and children picnicking near by; youngsters in a playground half a mile away became hysterical. It disrupted the oral examination of a doctoral candidate. One gasping coed, found in a classroom alone, could only sob: "Bastards! I'm a sorority girl...
...Peter Weiss' Marat/ Sade, the tear-jerking was decorous and concerned the plight of social revolution. One was expected to sob a little more audibly at Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, since, by the playwright's 15-watt intellectual lights, Pope Pius XII had it within his power to have prevented the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. Weiss rejoined the tear-bucket brigade with The Investigation, a static charade in which stand-up German tragedians testified that they were merely following orders in the massive extermination of the Jews...
...sends notes to friends' funerals saying: "I am very sorry it had to come to this." But when Breslin graduated to writing his mood pieces about the day's biggest news events, from Selma to Saigon, he was often unbeatable. He has been called a male sob-sister, and wise guys belittle his Dick-and-Jane vocabulary, but he is not the dummy he pretends to be, and his blend of brisk action and understated generalizations packed a punch...
Some of the students sob, quietly and soulfully. Temple Drake adjusts her halo, and awaits her oppressors...
What passes for country music these days is so diffuse that it just about defies definition. These albums have little in common except that they were made by men with short haircuts, a sob in their throats, a taste for old-style ballads, and a refreshing lack of city-style sophistication...