Word: woe
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...Cardinal Schuster granted him the use of the cathedral. It was not nearly big enough. A throng of 300,000 came to hear him call upon Italy to "give the world a new age of Christian individualism wherein the wealthy, like the early Christians, gladly share their excess wealth. . . . Woe to the rich man who does not hear the call. Woe to the poor man who angrily nourishes hate and dreams of violence.. . . The age of love is approaching...
...19th Century. Everything else about this British cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel is equally impossible. It begins in Ireland atop a large rocky lump of earth (see title) which a greedy capitalist named Brodrick is determined to excavate. A member of the lower classes prophesies that "woe" and "the end of everything green and beautiful" will betide if the hill is mined for copper. For three generations (roughly 90 minutes), flunkeys announce woe more often than dinner ("There's terrible trouble at the mines!"). The trouble causes the death of three Brodricks in two generations, drives...
...village, on foot, a wretched gaggle of perhaps 100 refugees arrived. One of them, a woman, was stripped of everything save a clutched newspaper. Her companions were so stupefied by woe that it had occurred to none of them to share their clothing with...
...Tale of Woe...
More pessimistic in her outlook on love and life was Miss Maureen Sullivan, a Trinity College grad completing the secretarial course. She woe-fully described her six week Cambridge sojourn as "blood, sweat, and tears...