Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Girlandaio, Albartonelli, Lippi, Uccello, and Roselli. No one hurries in the Uffizi, and some stand before a single painting, such as Botticelli's Pallade a il Centauro, for hours. Pallade, golden-haired and crowned with ivy, holds a centaur by the hair. She looks at his face with vivid sorrow; he hangs his head dolefully, mourning his entrapment with the lovely, longing adolescent...
...Girlandaio, Albartonelli, Lippi, Uccello, and Roselli. No one hurries in the Uffizi, and some stand before a single painting, such as Botticelli's Pallade a il Centauro, for hours. Pallade, golden-haired and crowned with ivy, holds a centaur by the hair. She looks at his face with vivid sorrow; he hangs his head dolefully, mourning his entrapment with the lovely, longing adolescent...
...first. The several condescending references to the Yale law school--one would have been enough--show the performers' academic commitments. They tell us that "Law School ain't no place to be in love," and how "This legal tutoring is really neutoring." Even if we are not reduced to sorrow over their plight, these lyrics, along with the trials and tribulations depicted in the script, afford the law students copious opportunity to wallow in self-pity...
...rule of one tribe for the sole benefit of its own people -the whites. The now familiar witch hunts begin: discrimination, forced removal of blacks to "homelands," detentions without trial and "racial classification" tests. What should be a period of progress becomes a harvest of sorrow and cruelty...
...refugees the sorrow of exile is the crudest pain of all. When they finally arrive at their longed-for destination, there comes a time for tears. Like travelers shipwrecked on an alien island, they weep over their lost homeland, their abandoned relatives and friends...