Word: weeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleased to note . . . the comparative crying styles of fundworthy Richard Nixon and minkworthy T. Lamar Caudle. After his video soul searching, Dick simply "broke into sobs." The next day in Wheeling, he merely "began to weep." But at a congressional hearing the same week, Caudle contemptibly "broke down on the stand and blubbered...
Auden's poem is probably the best of the lot: a description of "a plain without a feature," where masses of men march to the command of a dictator and nobody knows "Of any world where promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem is all too predictable to anyone familiar with Auden's work. Still more predictable are Marianne Moore spinning fine verbal webs, Wallace Stevens in a suavely elegiac mood, E. E. Cummings broken out in lyrical wonder. As for the younger poets, most are earnestly prosy, weary beyond their years...
...organization in the state except Lausche's. The Democratic state chairman, a Lausche man, does not work hard for any other Democratic candidate. Lausche is pleased when labor leaders oppose him; he figures that in Ohio this is more valuable than their support. On the platform he can weep almost as easily as Iran's Mossadegh, and can charm as well as any politician on the Ohio scene. In 1946 Lausche was defeated after some of his warmest supporters among foreign-born groups complained that he had stopped attending their weddings and christenings. Lausche quickly corrected that...
...window sill that I decided to take a look at the pretty pot that was calling the kettle black ... I refuse to get bitter about [Eleanor], and I never suspected any extracurricular activity on the part of my wife. But her behavior was enough to make a strong man weep. My marriage ended seven years ago." (He was locked out of their house in October.) Since then, he said, "she has been my wife in name only." Billy recalled that he offered her a "generous" cash settlement and "an equally generous sum of alimony," even though it was less than...
...surprising that Coccioli fails to bring off this master throw. "How incapable I am of explaining!" writes one of his characters of Don Ardito. "What was there about his words that makes them ring with such intensity? ... I could weep over my own ineptitude. It is all the crueler because as soon as I stop writing I can see the essence of his secret in absolute clarity...