Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when you were in that Jap prison camp in Malaya." The ex-P.W. grinned and drank his toast. Said Kishi later, in a forthright speech: "It is my official duty, and my personal desire, to express to you and through you to the people of Australia, our heartfelt sorrow for what occurred in the war." Kishi's apology made headlines across Australia...
PNIN, by Vladimir Nabokov. About an émigré Russian professor at a U.S. college whose joyously ridiculous English and congenital helplessness only faintly conceal the sorrow of exile...
Juno and the Paycock (Angel, 2 LPs). With a foreword by Playwright Sean O'Casey, one of the century's great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...
...somber and tense tragedy of Mary's brother identifying a body in the darkness along a country road, and of Mary waiting in the kitchen's stark white light, trying to adjust to the expected news of Jay's death. She waits alone despite her aunt's presence because sorrow, like joy, is a loneliness infinitely difficult to communicate even though, and yet because, it depends upon others...
...touches. The wife of a stranger who finds Jay's body replaces with a sheet the horse blanket her husband had put over the dead man. This is the only way she can participate in the tragedy; it's all a stranger can do to show her sorrow and it's enough...