Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news of the ship's sinking was relayed to New York, where a family whose son had graduated splendidly from Harvard College wept for days and then was persuaded to do something to commemorate his brief passage. "On Widener Library you shall maintain your University." The silence there is stunning. The African studies his Shakespeare. The Jew goes on with his Greek. Shall we ever learn what we need to know...
Onstage, the adult choristers applauded while the children cheered and wept. Said Menotti, seized for a change with the delights of life: "Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I want the final chorus sung at my funeral...
...Together." For the President, perhaps the most pleasurable occasion of the week was in presiding over the ceremony in which honorary U.S. citizenship was conferred on Britain's Sir Winston Churchill. In the White House flower garden, Kennedy paid high tribute to Churchill: "Indifferent himself to danger, he wept over the sorrows of others. A child of the House of Commons, he became its father. Accustomed to the hardships of battle, he had no distaste for pleasure. Now his stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters...
...drawn-out trial, a Tel Aviv carpenter tearfully recalled that Barenblat's Jewish police once trooped back from a round-up in Bedzin "loudly singing, as if from a victorious engagement." described how they herded Jewish men. women and children into trucks headed for Auschwitz. "Even the streets wept." the witness said. Prosecutor Libai conceded that Barenblat saved "maybe ten or 20 Jews.'' but added: "This court will have to decide whether to save his own soul he was entitled to carry out the tasks of the Jewish police...
...Elusive Corporal. "The young man who has not wept is a savage," said George Santayana, "and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." In Grand Illusion, made in 1937, when he was 43, Jean Renoir wept for the worlds that die in wars. In Corporal, made last year, when he was 67, Renoir laughs for the worlds that are born in debacle. And while he's about it he laughs at the ridiculous ideas people have about freedom. Renoir's laughter is contagious. Nobody will consider his new war film as fine...