Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greed & Folly. For all his excellence in telling the story, Historian Runciman finishes with a startling piece of moralizing hindsight: "The historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at ... the limitations of human nature. There was so much courage and so little honor, so much devotion and so little understanding. High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which...
...sorrow of most oarsmen, the barge has sprung is weak in the joints, and has to be scrapped. At least it will not float on the river any more. It may go to Dartmouth, however, two carpenters, "Scotty" and Arthur, worked five weeks building a stronger, lighter, and more-casily handled boat. It was launched three days ago but won't be used until next fall, for it has no riggers and the outdoor training season will be over in two weeks...
Some doctors, citing Kuboyama's bad liver, apparently questioned whether radiation had been the cause of death. But the cause was officially announced as "radiation disease." U.S. Ambassador John Allison issued a prompt statement of "extreme sorrow" and presented the dead fisherman's widow with a check for 1,000,000 yen ($2,777). But twinges of anti-U.S. sentiment flickered across the islands; delegations of tuna fishermen marched up and down before Japan's Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate halt of U.S. H-bomb tests, and scores of protesting Japanese paraded on foot...
Except for gospel songs, she will sing only such numbers as Danny Boy: "That's a sad song. It tells the experience of one who has grieved, so I can sing it. I love to sing songs with a sorrow aspect." She refuses to do blues numbers because "they're sinful." Explains Mahalia: "Blues only touch the heart. Gospel singing is a heart feeling, too, but it's also got His love, and that's what I've got to sing if I'm going to sing...
Ruins in the Ruhr. The strength-and the weakness-of Author Faviell's book is that it is written by a sensitive foreigner who was touched by Berlin's sorrow without fully sharing it. Heinrich Böll, by contrast, knows the inwardness of his people's sorrow-and only the inwardness. In Acquainted with the Night, Author Böll plucks three days from the life of Fred Bogner, a switchboard operator who has been drifting through the ruins of the Ruhr, drinking and playing pinball ever since he returned from the Russian front...