Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winterset," a great Broadway success in the past, has strong appeal for Cambridge's socially conscious cognoscenti. The play's most optimistic statement, rendered by the venerable Esdros, played by John Simon proclaims that the best man can expect from this vale of sorrow is to be able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer...
...Vitebsk, Russia. Under the Czars, no Jew could forget the burden of dread which Christian Europe forced on his race. But Chagall's family were Hasideans, who rebelled against the sober intellectualism of the Talmudists. They taught young Marc that the essence of religion was love, and that sorrow could only cloud communication with...
Housman wrote very few lines in his life, even the bad ones, which did not have the qualities quintessential to true poetry. Moreover, his lines are as simple in feeling as they are in language. Their obsessions are with love, sorrow, courage, loneliness, comradeship, death, the delicate and enduring beauty of the world, and the transient and dubious beauty of living in it. Such emotions are of great and unchangeable vividness to human beings who, having peered into the world's Gorgon face, have lost their childhood, but not yet their heart. They, above all people, are Housman...
...bleak pessimism of late-winter France came the new fad of Dolorism. The first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...
...love, and her children's doleful life exactly reflected her own despair. When the whole miserable family sat around the table at Passover arid Father Braunowitz chanted: "And we cried unto the Eternal, the God of our fathers, and the Eternal heard our voice, saw our affliction, our sorrow, and our oppression," John ground his teeth with rage, and told himself that it was all a lie-"Jews were...