Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a retirement, were compounded by a departure, aggravated by a leave of absence to Stanford, and culminated by five Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Baker, Bate, Brower, Levin, Shannon, Guerard, and Rollins. So pity the poor English major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Modern Novels, Romantic Poets, Elizabethan Literature, Early Tudor Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Criticism, and Modern Poetry. Unloved, unwanted, and now uneducated--pity the poor English major...
...Baltimore's Evening Sun, hurled a carboy of acid across Chesapeake Bay at the lynchers and their ilk. Sample corrosives: "The Eastern Shore Kultur ... an Alsatia of morons . . . ignorant and ignoble minds." Maryland's state senate recently held a roll call on a resolution expressing "the sorrow of the General Assembly of Maryland over the passing of Henry Louis Mencken." It passed, not unanimously as such resolutions usually do, but by a vote of 22 to 5. Among the five naysayers: four long-memoried Eastern Shoremen. Last week Maryland's house of delegates did better...
...Journey Into Night was a purgation: in it he has faced ghosts that haunted him during most of his life-time and forced him to understand and reveal them to his own soul. The result is a play which, though heavy with the pain and despair and fruitless sorrow of human life, transcends all these as a testimony to the endless and inescapable power of man's love...
When Playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941 inscribed the work to his wife Carlotta, he called it "this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood." So personal and painful were its harsh, acid scenes that O'Neill withheld publication or performance until after his death. As he lay dying, he asked that the first performance of his last play be given in Sweden, where his popularity was always greater than it was in the U.S. Last week, two years after his death and 15 years after the play's birth, O'Neill...
...death will send a twinge of nostalgia to many a middle-aged American-a feeling which will be difficult to explain to his son or daughter. A generation ago, Mencken's passing would have caused wholesale sorrow in certain speakeasies and newspaper city rooms. College students would have cut classes for a day to mourn the loss of the stormiest figure on the U.S. conversational scene. And in many a parish house and political forum, his death would have been considered...