Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were only six survivors. One hundred and sixty-five fishermen were lost. The whole coast mourned them, but the greatest sorrow was in the village of Matosinhos, nearly all of whose men were drowned. The Rola family lost four men, who between them left 21 children. Old Mother Cunha sat rocking back & forth: "Belmiro, Chico, my beloved ones, come back to me." In a corner, silent and white-faced, sat Chico's bride of five months...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...
...Erleigh Sorrow. South Africa's breezy Norbert S. Erleigh, whose ?100,000,000 New Union Goldfields empire was recently thrown into receivership (TIME, Nov. 24), was arrested on a charge of theft for borrowing ?352,875 from New Union without the board's permission. He was let out on bail after he promised not to 1) leave the country or 2) dabble in New Union business. He found these conditions infuriating. With two new gold strikes on lots adjoining properties controlled by New Union, it looked as if New Union might get back on its feet without Erleigh...
...Matthews' The Assault, a terse account of hitting the beach at Iwo Jima. Worth reading were John Home Burns's The Gallery, a novel of a G.I.'s experiences in Naples, Charles Christian Wertenbaker's story of the French Forces of the Interior (Write Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair (A Room on the Route). William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway...
...first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master progressively and frantically accelerates. ... In the end the spring breaks and the grandiose edifice crumbles in sorrow and blood...