Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Frau Ehrengard Schramm, a German historian, arrived in Greece to write a war history. She wanted to visit Kalavryta, but was warned not to; she went anyway. She met hostility but no harm. "They were simple in their sorrow," she said, "not fanatical. They had no self-pity, but their faces expressed so much sorrow my breath stopped." She talked with one woman whose husband and three sons had been killed. "Her figure," she said, "seemed to have turned to stone...
...Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices a profound compassion for the sorrow...
...circumstances relating to his actual selection are unique, although shaded with sorrow. On March 10, 1869, Eliot was attending a routine Board of Overseer's meeting. His thoughts were interpreted by James: "At home his wife's fatal illness was drawing to a close ... She had been the romance of his life. The future without her must have looked like an empty loneliness...
...Adopted a resolution of sorrow at the death of Utah's ex-Senator Elbert Thomas, 69, high commissioner of U.S. Trust territory in the Pacific (see MILESTONES...
...woman, Mrs. Virginia Morton, 42, was dead. But the man, a wiry, sandy-haired fellow of 39, was alive. Presently he moaned, sat up and became a suffering human again. In pain, in fear, in sorrow, he told a story the cops had already guessed. His name was Noble-Francis R. Noble-and he had lived with the woman for years. He loved her, he said. But they had been beaten by the huge and faceless city...