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That is why the Charter of the United Nations begins with these words: "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to have succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought sorrow to mankind..." And the Charter goes on to state these objectives: "to establish conditions under which justice, and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained ... and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security...
Ackley apparently spoke more in sorrow than in anger-and this seems to have been the pattern in recent metal price hikes. When the leading U.S. copper companies, which had also been pressured into rolling back price hikes in 1965, announced 2?-a-lb. increases two weeks ago, Washington merely grumbled. Thus encouraged, nine steelmakers last week followed Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s earlier lead in raising prices on tubular products by averages of 2.5% to 3%. At the same time, the price of molybdenum, an alloy agent used in strengthening steel, was raised 3.7% by two leading producers...
Above the pain that was killing him, the smouldering temple, and above Death, He saw the people. They were tearing their hair, screaming with sorrow because...
...camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth is a tin-tongued ingenue...
...part with an annoying wobble, and sounded strained on the high notes. But he, almost alone among the principals, made his words clear, and he played his role vigorously. Janina Mukerji sang Dido with perfect control and intonation. Both her voice and acting were warm, and her sorrow and anger at Aeneas' fickleness were the most powerfully conveyed emotions of the performance...