Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those whose taste in sculpture had been formed by that of the Greeks and Renaissance Italians would find such works hard to take. For them, sculpture is primarily a celebration of human pride, grace and joy. Marini's sculpture celebrated humility, awkwardness and sorrow - plus dogged endurance...
...More in sorrow than in anger, steelmen stomped into the Senate caucus room last week. They were not there, as one of them said, to defend the latest boost in the price of steel (TIME, Dec. 26); they didn't think they had to. But they wanted to explain it to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report...
...midst of the festivities, somebody remembered Mom. "This day, let us transfer ourselves to the suburbs of Tbilisi," wrote Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, "and with reverent sorrow and ardent gratitude in our hearts silently bend our heads over the sacred remains of a small, modest Georgian woman, the mother who 70 years ago gave the world him who became humanity's greatest man, our leader and father...
...cruelties of a despot who made even such a hard-faced operator as Cesare Borgia look like a cherubic innocent. Nonetheless, Eckardt does his best to follow the rule he paraphrases from Philosopher Benedetto Croce: "Not to insist upon a description of horrors in history [but] to find in sorrow and terror the starting-point of a new development...