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poignant
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There was in this experience the poignance of office technologies past (carbons, telegrams, memos typed on manual typewriters) and the names of the distinguished departed--from Malcolm Cowley, Viking's longtime literary adviser, to other colleagues, mentors, and friends.
Yet, amazingly enough, he works humane lines of poignance into many of them.
For this was no joke; it was an odd instant of poignance, a sort of anointing with sweaty thumbs of the man who, we liked to think, had given us this tiny wooden stage on which to slice through the air and be young and vigorous and supple and joyous.
 
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