Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE AMERICA has as its theme the oppression of the Negro, and the reactions to this pressure-in humor, in cynicism, in anger and in sorrow-are as numerous as the dramatic sketches that recount them...
...shining, so eradicable a sorrow...
...WHITE AMERICA has as its theme the oppression of the Negro, and the reactions to this pressure-in humor, in cynicism, in anger and in sorrow-are as numerous as the dramatic sketches that recount them...
...Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed. Was such a woman legally a bereaved widow or sorrow-stricken mistress? The Malpasset Dam disaster stirred public demand for a legal solution...
...with no sense of dismay that it was man's fate. His first novel, The Human Season, is nothing more than an extended portrayal of the enormous grief of a middle-aged Jewish plumber whose wife has died. The author does not founder in the plumber's sorrow; neither does he regard it with detachment. His view might be that of a loving son or brother who says only, because there is nothing more to say, "This is part of what...