Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years before the turn of the century, however, Bach ad not stood in such repute. To the romantic of the 19th century, he represented formalism and meshed wit last glimmers of the Baroque-were no longer in style. Composers were writing symphonies instead of cantatas. Bach's Polyphony was dead...
...damage was already done. An estimated 2,000 soldiers and civilians, mostly Hondurans, were reported dead. Honduran bombs damaged El Salvador's biggest oil refinery. The future effectiveness of the Central American Common Market, which has brought a surprising amount of industrialization to the region of the combatants in the past nine years, was imperiled, and the area's main lifeline, the Inter-American Highway, was closed down by the fighting. In the wake of death and damage, a legacy of bitterness was created that might well bedevil the two neighbors for years...
Chased by El Diablo's troops, Honduran soldiers and civilians alike fled over the nearby Guatemalan border. American Franciscan Father Roderick Brennan, Ocotepeque's parish priest, estimated that he saw 500 dead Hondurans after the battle, 100 of them civilians. El Salvador claimed losses of only 18 soldiers killed. The blue and white flag of El Salvador flew over the nearly deserted Honduran town...
...grief reaction to sudden death runs a predictable if painful course. After the loss, surviving family members may suffer from such psychosomatic complaints as gastrointestinal or respiratory problems. They are also likely to pass through a series of other disorders, from visions of the dead person to guilt feelings to hostility toward life itself. Psychologists who have studied grief recognize the importance of community support for bereaved persons. Sadly enough, even well-meaning family and friends are often unable to provide it-partly because of their own embarrassment over the subject of death...
...York Telephone Co., one of the biggest of the Bell System. Benton & Bowles staffers have been struggling for five weeks with a near blackout of communications. Callers trying to reach the agency have encountered crackling static, interminable busy signals, voices that faded away strangely, and occasionally dead silence. "Not only were people unable to get us," says B. & B. Chairman Ted Steele,* "but there were gremlins in the outgoing system too." The troubles began when the agency moved to new quarters in Manhattan covered by the PLaza 8 exchange. It is the first of the city's three fully...