Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot of the Cross is modeled on Griinewald's ideal of Nordic beauty, with wildly flowing silky blonde hair, sumptuous, rippling salmon-pink robe and veil. Griinewald has painted beauty moved to the ultimate of grief; Mary Magdalene's delicate features are a frozen mask of sorrow, her fingers writhe numbly, and even the sleeves of her elegant gown appear twisted and rigid...
Novelist Alberto Moravia (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love ) has often written about sex as man's hex. In Two Women he all but abandons sensuality for sorrow, all but ignores the battle of the sexes for the real war that raged across his native Italy in the '405. The result is a novel curiously dated as to period and theme, but strikingly different as a work from Moravia...
...Your Sorrow Unmasked." Born 44 years ago as Amos Joseph Alphonsus Jacobs, Danny Thomas was the fifth of ten children of a Lebanese immigrant laborer who, back in Toledo, often sold candy to make ends meet. Appropriately, Danny's first taste of show business was as a candy butcher in a burlesque house. Before long, he was onstage, hamming it up in radio and nightclubs. In 1936 he married a Detroit radio singer named Rosemarie Mantell, today has three children...
...succeeds as a funnyman mostly because his humor seems to well up from a sizable heart. Or, as Danny Thomas puts it, citing his favorite philosopher, Lebanese Mystic Kahlil (The Prophet) Gibran: "Comedy and tragedy aren't very far apart. Like Gibran says, 'Your joy is your sorrow unmasked...
When Copey moved from Hollis, the press treated the event with as much sorrow as if he had died. The "light in Hollis" has been put out, they said. There had to be assurances form Professor Copeland himself that he had not wanted to move. "I had expected to stay long enough to come out feet first" said Copey, and the sanctity of Hollis 15 remained intact. Possessing the mystery which makes biography difficult, Copey made himself attractive, inspiring, and great...