Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More in Sorrow." In a recent lecture on "The British Empire Today," Soviet Historian I. M. Lemin was even more lucid about the White Man's Burden (Yankee-style): "The Soviet Union does not constitute a threat to the British Empire. . . . We do not want to intervene in Britain's overseas relations. ... All the screaming, especially by the Americans, about the Soviet threat to the Empire is merely an excuse for the Americans to penetrate into the Empire. . . . The Americans have consistently opposed imperial preference, and it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is threatening...
...British public, the Manchester Guardian's Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth reported the Lemin lecture with warm overtones of "You see-they may still get to like us." Any criticisms of the Empire the professor may have made were offered "more in sorrow than in anger," explained Werth. "Without explicitly saying that the British Empire was a good thing, Dr. Lemin suggested [that] it was a complicated political organism which was evolving in the right direction...
...WRITE SORROW ON THE EARTH (260 pp.) - Charles Christian Wertenbaker -Holt...
...Write Sorrow on the Earth is chiefly the story of three people: an ex-professor named Paul Boissière, a young Spaniard whose nom-de-guerre is Bob, and Paul's wife Simone. Paul, at 38, is a middle-class intellectual whose revolutionary sympathies, though they have not frozen him along a party line, have impelled him to become a leader among the maquisards of the Vercors, in southeastern France. Bob, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is already, at 24, a seasoned revolutionary soldier. Paul and Bob have developed a close father-&-son-and brain-&-bravery...
...Write Sorrow on the Earth must be described as a "secondary" novel, in the sense that it would probably never have been written if Malraux and, to a lesser extent, Hemingway, had not broken similar ground in a somewhat similar way. It also shows one chief lack within itself: it does not have much of the kind of energy which usually distinguishes powerfully talented novels. Yet it shines bright and steady beside many novels which have such energy. It has none of the death-neurosis or neurotic heroics of Malraux; none of the softness of Steinbeck or Hersey; none...