Word: wept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to enjoy near his home at La Jolla. Klein and his wife Marjorie have two married daughters. He reads newspapers and periodicals, but seldom has time for books. He views the world through habitually squinted eyes and speaks so softly that reporters must strain to hear him. He wept openly after Nixon's 1960 defeat and did so again, perhaps for different reasons, after Nixon's famous "last press conference" following the California gubernatorial election of 1962. With newsmen, he has preserved a reputation for efficiency and impartiality that will undoubtedly be more than a little useful...
When Truman Capote first viewed the TV adaptation of his autobiographical tale, A Christmas Memory, he broke down and wept. Viewers across the country also found it one of the most affecting dramas ever seen on U.S. television. Then Capote wrote The Thanksgiving Visitor, another chapter in his portrait of the artist as a young boy. As before, Frank and Eleanor Perry, the husband-and-wife moviemaking team (David and Lisa), adapted and produced the film. And once again, the result, which ABC has scheduled for Thanksgiving night, is a rare, lyrical hour for television...
...dismissal was his role in last May's student riots. During the demonstrations, anarchist rebels from the Sorbonne "liberated" the Odéon and turned it into a discussion hall. They also destroyed 50% of the sets, ripped up red velvet seats and urinated on costumes. Barrault wept when he saw the damage, but government officials believed that he tacitly allowed the rebels to take over. Barrault also took the stage to proclaim his sympathy with student goals and to denounce France's "bourgeois culture...
Miss Duffy has a special talent for describing landscape, seascape and weather. But a sea that is always cold and grey and a climate so English that "the morning wept over them" become a too mournful refrain to the novel's dreary proceedings. Next time her hero should try the South Seas...
...with the young people below. "Oh, Dad," pleaded his daughter Mary, "help them!" That evening he went down to his staff headquarters on the 15th floor, where his doctor, William Davidson, had opened a makeshift hospital. McCarthy comforted the bruised and bleeding. A girl who had been injured wept hysterically, and photographers crowded around her. Only then did McCarthy show the emotion reporters had looked for during nine long months of arduous campaigning. "Get out of the way, fellows. You don't have to see anything. Get the hell...