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...families that have to deal with the suicide of a child, there's often a great deal of anguish and fragmentation of the family, and this is compounded by the fact that there tends to be a taboo in talking about it. Family members are often ashamed and reluctant to talk with members of the community," Mack said...
Later on, there is a darker wonder: a remote broadcast making the entire nation privy to the anguish of the Phelps family, whose daughter is trapped in a well. The reporter on the spot, no less than his listeners, expects the incident to end happily. Everything always did on the radio, which was an even more efficient dream machine than the movies. But no. The child dies. The dismay in the announcer's voice is caused not only by an "unexpected human tragedy" but by the way reality has let down the medium...
Vincent is back. We left him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, crop- eared and dazed in Arles: "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." Two months after writing this, he voluntarily entered the lunatic asylum at Saint-Remy in Provence; and 15 months after that, discharged but still plagued by unassuageable fits of melancholy, he shot himself to death in the rural village of Auvers, just north of Paris. Van Gogh was 37 when he died -- at the same...
Summing up, Hunthausen declared that the Rome-imposed arrangement with Wuerl seemed "unworkable" and pleaded with his colleagues to "address this issue with the Holy See." After considerable anguish, the bishops issued a document that endorsed Rome's right to intervene in Seattle and said its procedures properly protect both individual rights and the good of the church. Indeed, the bishops declared that they "affirm unreservedly their loyalty to and unity with the Holy Father." Hunthausen's allies managed one triumph: deletion of the assertion that Vatican treatment of the Archbishop of Seattle was "just and reasonable." The bishops also...
...later Chief of State Lieut. General Henri Namphy made an emotional bid to restore confidence in the Port-au-Prince government. "I have lived in my flesh your anguish over the possible return of the old system," he declared. Coincidentally, the fledgling Duvalierist party was disbanded. To further counter discontent with the sluggish pace of change, Namphy will travel to Miami to seek badly needed investment at the annual Caribbean Conference this week...