Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who planned this film first read Joyce quite profoundly. They discovered not only some of his wildest humor, but also his deepest tenderness, and his sense of how quickly the mind, in its movements, can leap from tenderness to humor, or from deep sorrow to humor. They discovered too Joyce's vision of man's hope, the optimistic vitality epitomized by Molly Bloom (Barbara Jefford), the Earth Mother, but well-represented in her husband (the "womanly man") Leopold. In the vital mind of Molly or Leopold, the choice is humor when humor and sorrow coincide. The Blooms...
...OVER THE WORLD (MGM). Anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll on the radio can't help hearing about hearing that hush-"the sounds of lovers in love." The sunny troubadors are Herman's Hermits who also sing such post-nursery rhymes as Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow, If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' and No Milk Today...
...Shepardson, a longtime Martin supporter, will face mandatory retirement when he reaches 70 late this month. Another sour note was struck by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee and an outspoken easy-money advocate. Martin's reappointment, said Patman, will "cause this Administration much sorrow in future years...
Painful Decision. Luce's greatest postwar sorrow was the fall of China to the Communists in 1949. A staunch supporter and friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Luce had nonetheless seen the Red handwriting on the wall. In 1946 he visited Nanking while the mission of General George Marshall was trying to effect a peace between the Kuomintang and the Communists. There, he went to see Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit...
...milk. It was the same with his first crime-robbing the church poor box. A confederate got the pesos and Pito got the penance. "My life," he says, "is a sad one, like that of all cheats. But I have seen people laugh so often at my sorrow that I have ended up laughing at it myself...