Word: sorrowed
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...Nashville, he was taught Negro history by my father, Merl R. Eppse, who encouraged Mr. Rowan to join the Navy's recruiting program for capable Negro men [Jan. 31]. The true conviction and deep understanding of this fellow Tennessean are firmly expressed in his book, Go South to Sorrow. I am proud of Mr. Rowan as an outstanding Southern American who has simultaneously become an outstanding Southern Negro...
...still lies beyond Amália, beyond Lisbon's boulevards, and deep in its slums. There illiterate workers still exchange quatrains of their own invention. Aristocrats repeat them over murky wine and grilled sardines, and eventually the word reaches Amália. Then, full of fire and ashes, sorrow and sin, she sings...
...know, nor does anyone else, Why I sing the fado in this hurt tone Of pain and sorrow. In this torment full of anguish I feel that my soul regains its calm With the verses I sing...
...Legacy of Pain. In one of two compelling off-Broadway offerings that do have unity of tone, meaning, and performance, a consciousness of massive injustice and personal sorrow settles movingly upon the playgoer. In White America is a poignant chronicle of the Negro's centuries-old legacy of pain, oppression, and denial, from the days of slavery to the present hour. It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots. Sensitive actors make the word intolerance become flesh, tortured, torturing...
...ashen-faced from his recent illness, 69-year-old Harold Macmillan threw back his shoulders with the kind of dignity under attack that comes instinctively to the Old Guardsman. "Of course," he said, "I was deceived. That must always be for me and for the whole House a great sorrow." Soon afterward, Harold Macmillan, who held office for almost seven straight years-a record unmatched by any other peacetime Prime Minister in nearly half a century-rose and, bowing to the Speaker, drove...