Word: grief-stricken
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...more than 700 victims this year. Thousands of others thronged to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where Romero's body lay in state, and joined a silent procession behind the cortege as it was taken to the Metropolitan Cathedral. "He was our father and protector," explained one grief-stricken woman carrying a small bouquet of yellow flowers. Said a middle-aged salesman: "The people will never forget this vile...
Pressures on Meany to bow out had been building the past several months. The crusty autocrat was grief-stricken last March by the death of Eugenia, his wife of 59 years. Then, stepping out of a golf cart, he wrenched his knee and had a severe reaction to cortisone injections. After spending two months in the hospital and a month at home, he returned to work in August in a wheelchair. Meany was able to spend only a few hours a day in the office. "That just added to the stagnation," says an official at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington...
...Cruelty to Animals, there has been a marked increase in "demands for ransom to return animals." The ransom bite usually ranges between $150 and $200. Sometimes those seeking ransom do not even have the animal; they pose as dog finders when they see the phone number of a grief-stricken owner in "Dog Lost" advertisements...
...silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden, and that turns the enormous grainy effigy of John Kennedy (then dead), with its repeated pointing hand, into a type of vengeful deity. Rauschenberg has had great moments of social irony. "The day will come," Edmond de Goncourt wrote...
...never be "washed out;" for what it's worth, Auden was the greatest living English poet even in his decline. But it's still unfortunate--for us--that he ever had to decline at all. When a great poet dies at the height of his powers, we must be grief-stricken to think of what the loss of even a single day may have robbed us. But when a great poet dies after lapsing into a "classic fatigue" we can be more temperate. We are only sorry this meant we had to lose a poet before his time...