Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade and Social Security bills, has long savored his reputation as the most powerful man in Congress. The spectacle of one of the House's most revered elder statesmen cavorting onstage with a stripper sent shock waves through Congress, most especially members of Mills' own party. In sorrow, House Speaker Carl Albert announced that Mills would not be Ways and Means chairman when the 94th Congress convened in January. A confused and ailing Mills checked himself into the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., for a checkup and a badly needed rest...
...circumstance have overborn technology. The great ships are badly built and hard to handle. They are also, it appears, crucially overloaded, sloppily sailed, sketchily regulated for safety and steadily dangerous. The problem is partly a matter of scale, a dramatic change that-as Lemuel Gulliver learned to his sorrow-can be catastrophic. Especially in congested shipping lanes, the V.L.C.C.s are simply too big and too inertia-bound to operate safely by current rules of navigation. (Among other things, Mostert urges the establishment of onshore control towers like those now handling flight patterns around jet airports...
Unfashionable as it has become, the word charisma may have to be revived to describe Arkansas' new Senator Dale Bumpers, 49. He is so charismatic, in fact, that a lot of people, to their sorrow, have had trouble taking him seriously. "Dandy Dale" they have called him, "the man with one speech, a shoeshine and a smile." But the smile has turned out to be deadly for his opponents, who never quite knew what hit them, so disarming was the weapon. Today, Bumpers is considered the most promising politician in the South-a region that, as it moderates...
Grief is the wood-note wild of the Irish soul. Rarely has a people's sorrow been sounded with such resonant purity as it is in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Despite moments of bathos and some soap operatics in the construction of the plot, this play is one of the granitic masterworks of modern dramatic...
...Sartre, each had connections with the Resistance that persuaded Leftist intellectuals to go along with the consensus. But since the disgrace and death of de Gaulle, this consensus has been exploded, and Frenchmen have eagerly devoured a whole succession of books and movies about the Occupation ever since The Sorrow and The Pity brought the issue out into the open a few years...