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Brodkey's central subject is the suffering child. The anguish chiefly arises from the loss, real or imagined, of parents and their protection (Largely an Oral History of My Mother; His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft). Brodkey's family histories tend to stretch out as interminable catalogs of emotion, pain and bereavement alternating with epiphanic flashes of elation: "In my memories of this time of my life, it seems to be summer all the time, even when the ground is white: I suppose it seems like summer because I was never cold." Moments like this almost redeem...
...intense search reflected the anguish of American families who still cannot be certain whether their missing loved ones are alive or dead. With a persistence born from desperation, they continue to demand a full accounting of the 2,393 servicemen listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia, 1,757 of whom were lost in Viet Nam.* "The driving force is the uncertainty," says Ann Mills Griffiths, executive director of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. "We are determined to seek answers...
...Ernest and Regina Twigg of Langhorne, Pa., the death of their nine-year- old Arlena after heart surgery last month was heartbreaking -- on top of anguish that began after presurgery tests of Arlena's blood revealed she was Type B positive. The Twiggs both have Type O blood, which meant that Arlena probably had not been their natural child...
...principled act was to make a choice about your commitment to the war, and not pretend it was just something happening in Washington." Baby-boom politicians should continue to be questioned about Viet Nam, and deserve the consequences if it turns out that their primary response to the anguish of the age was self-absorbed apathy...
...Gone is the Throttlebottom era, when almost any politician, remotely competent and occasionally sober, could be drafted to fill out a ticket. In a vice-presidential candidate, the nation now sees an individual who could be called on to enter the Oval Office at a time of supreme national anguish. That is the most unfortunate thing about the Quayle quagmire -- how little of the controversy touches on the Indiana Senator's abilities to shoulder that potentially terrible burden...