Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. - Genesis...
Earnest readers of the New Republic are neither shocked nor alarmed by Communists. But their earnest weekly, after a brief period of trying to balance on-the party line, has once more got its feet firmly planted on the clouds of "liberalism," and regards Communists, more in sorrow than in anger, as erring brethren. It was thus something of a surprise to New Republic readers last week when the NR announced, starting in its Aug. 5 issue, the first of a series of articles by Communist emeritus Earl Browder "Exclusively in the New Republic...
Before he can hope to make another film, Eisenstein may have to eat humble pie, like the magazine Sovietskoe Iskusstvo (Soviet Art), recently denounced by Pravda because its critics were too polite to Soviet artists. Last week Iskusstvo crawled for three whole columns: "To our sorrow, very often an objective critical analysis of a work was replaced by out-of-place praise. In articles about some plays, Carmen for instance ... we wrote in delightful tones. But it was a quite ordinary performance...
Since U.S. occupation troops in Japan are unalterably determined to fraternize, the military authorities began helping them out last week by issuing a phrase book. Sample utility phrases: "You're very pretty" . . . "How about a date?" . . . "Where will I meet you?" And since the sweet sorrow of parting always comes, the book lists no less than 14 ways to say goodbye...
...Slav lands across the heart of Europe to within a hundred miles of the French frontier. It was a country whose life was drawn & quartered by four jealously sealed occupation zones, whose economy was nearly dead, whose hungry, tired people were nearly hopeless. To a world heavy with sorrow, it was a country whose very misery seemed unimportant, except in terms of the great struggle between Russia and the West...