Word: sorrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorry for the brilliant, devoted, courageous Lewis Strauss, whose 40 years of public service the U.S. Senate has rewarded with humiliation and defeat [June 29]. But I am sorrier for the U.S. Have the once honorable members of this once august body nothing better to do than bicker and quibble over the appointments of proven statesmen...
...those long summer evenings . . . Those were the evenings when a light-a bonfire on the distant hills-made me scream and roll on the ground, because I was poor, because I was a boy, because I was nothing." In the end, the hero hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes best about: the sun-drenched Italian soil and a small boy's growing...