Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fierce emotional attachment to Israel. The reasons are not difficult to find. Two thousand years of Diaspora and persecution have left a legacy of interdependence. The deaths of 6,000,000 during World War II, followed soon after by the rebirth of a Jewish state, added first unspeakable sorrow and then boundless pride to their outlook...
...descriptions of situations work most strongly in the home. When the wife lies back on her bed she is surrounded by the deep blues of coverlet and dressing-sreen, which Chabrol had avoided showing in an earlier bedroom scene. We hardly need hear her quiet sobs to feel the sorrow into which she has fallen. Chabrol tells us visually, and tells us emotionally more than intelectually. His realistic avoidance of significant dialogue throws the job of character delineation onto acting, set design, and camerawork. Chabrol's mastery of all three is complete...
AMID all the noisy rhetoric of the retreat from integration in recent weeks, surprisingly few blacks have spoken out in sorrow or anger. Black leaders, normally quick off the mark to meet any new challenge to civil rights, have largely kept quiet. Their silence in part reflects the general confusion and uncertainty over the turnabout. More important, it shows that for increasing numbers of black leaders and thoughtful black citizens, integration is no longer the magic formula it was in the heady, exultant days following the 1954 Brown decision. There is a new sense among blacks of the limits...
...have been difficult to fit into the everyday demands of editorship. Clearly the man and his words were worth all the trouble. It is hard not to agree with Buckley's valediction composed after Chambers' death in 1961. He speaks "to our time from the center of sorrow...
...them, trim in tight bathing suits, seem more interested in the beefcake varsity football squad than in Paul, who spends a good deal of his time reading The Myth of Sisyphus and contemplating the infinite sorrow of existence. A crush on a sexy cheerleader named Christine (Lada Edmund Jr.) gets him into trouble with the gum-snapping football star (Jon Voight) and makes him, if not entirely a man, at least more than...