Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these impersonal poems, but the two singles most like Mitchell's previous outpourings of love and love's conflicts. "In France They Kiss On Main Street" is a catchy song which revels in young love--"amour, mama, not some cheap display." The other single, "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow," appeals to animals if not to fight at least to rise; each distinctly narrated verse repeats the melody...
...P.L.O. My first reaction is sorrow that a superpower with special responsibility for world peace and immense interests in this region ties its decisions to those of Israel. Particularly because the P.L.O. is recognized by the great majority of world countries as sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, who are at the core of the Middle East problem. Israeli propaganda tries to make people believe Israel should not negotiate with the P.L.O. because the P.L.O. does not recognize Israel and intends to destroy it. How can we ask a displaced people to take the initiative in recognizing those...
...Gandhi's opposition that led her to declare a state of emergency and suspend many of India's democratic freedoms. After the Supreme Court's ruling, Mrs. Gandhi emerged from her New Delhi home to speak to a jubilant crowd of her supporters. "In joy and sorrow you have always been with me," she said, denouncing her opponents as "those who started the trouble." The Prime Minister gave no clue as to what she would do next. Unquestionably, she will push ahead on the ambitious social and economic reforms inaugurated during the emergency (TIME, Oct. 27). Some...
...point. Miss Ross, however, is no Julie Christie. She may be more persuasive as the fictive Tracy than as the authentic Billie Holiday. But she remains an uneasy actress who pushes everything past endurance -including the audience. Ross laughs eagerly but never with a semblance of spontaneity, weeps without sorrow and rages without passion...
...alcoholic husband, knows how to express her bitterness with a good amount of bile. And her lines--especially about taking a black stable-boy statue from the white home where she's going to do the cleaning and lynching it--bring together a good mixture of humor and sorrow. Somehow this play is made for the down-and-outers of the raw, physical side of life, because aside from the black woman and Fran (Valerie Kiuelson), an alcoholic singer on her way to an appointment with the Monongahela River, the play doesn't do too well. The poet (John Sviolka...