Word: sorrowed
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...which is pure rock, is right nearly all the time. This instant impact that rock 'n' roll has is due in part to the fact that it hits the listener at that deep level at which he stores his reservoir of the basic emotions of man: sorrow and delight, sexuality and violence. Being always present these responses are easily aroused. In part also rock 'n' roll owes its profound charge to the form itself: the typical rock song (and this applies even to a masterpiece like "Satisfaction") is internally compact in lyrics message, and overall feel, rigidly prescribed within...
...sharp and accurate novel of the innocent gaiety of the paisanos in Monterey, he wrote: "When you speak of Danny's house, you are understood to mean a unit of which the parts are men, from which came sweetness and joy, philanthropy and, in the end, a mystic sorrow. For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights." In 1952's East of Eden, the Biblical parallels of Cain and Abel are so relentlessly stenciled upon the plot that symbolized meaning threatens to overwhelm the narrative...
...Enemy Within. Store owners have also learned to their sorrow that the enemy is within as well as without. V. W. Green, security chief for Foley's department store in Houston, notes that many shoplifters take temporary pre-Christmas jobs in stores for the express purpose of supplying their personal needs free. "The employee has a lot more chances to steal," Green says. "He's here 40 hours a week; he's probably not watched as closely as the prospective shoplifter in the aisles, and it's easier for him to get away with...
...blame must go to the performer, I feel most of the responsibility for this vacuum belongs to the director. He evidently has not bothered in the least to get anything more than a shell of a character from his actor. We get waving hands for nervousness; pained looks for sorrow, moody line readings for introspection. With no central character around, we must work too hard to find out what Horovitz is talking about. Finally we give up and watch the proceedings as we would a Sid Caesar sketch. While some of the laughs are there, the play...
...question that the oldfashioned, Depression-bred Democratic Party will have to be rebuilt. Robert Kennedy may have had the brains and the toughness to do the job; whether Ted can do it has not yet been proved, and will not be as long as he is withdrawn into his sorrow...