Word: grief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Saint." Wilma Montesi's grief-stricken parents, at first the object of great sympathy, proved to be shifty witnesses. Stubbornly they insisted that Wilma could not possibly have been involved with any man except the young police sergeant she-was engaged to marry. She was a "santarellina" (little saint), sobbed Mamma Montesi. Only under relentless hammering from the judge...
...horror, despair, chaos and grief is bemoaned vehemently and emotionally at Busch-Reisinger's "War and Aftermath: German art in relation to the First World War." The Teutonic emotionalism of these artists' immediate reactions to terror makes the exhibition an important psychological document. The reactions themselves make it an historical record. Its value as art is a question apart...
...free the will and judgment from error and perversion. If the training is not completed in life, it must be finished after death; "that is why any attempt to hold the spirits 'earthbound'-by 'calling them up' at seances, or even by importunate and possessive grief-is to do them wrong by delaying their entry into beatitude. But sooner or later, if beatitude is what we truly want, we shall get it; for it is what God wants...
...contrast, one suspects young Americans burden themselves with unnecessary responsibilities. A comparable and excellent Hollywood movie, Rebel Without a Cause, showed the grief of American youth by explaining how well-meaning but misinformed parents led their progeny to dangerous irresponsibility. Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood wanted to have good motives and fine ambitions, but their unhappy homes forced them to seek perverted thrills outside the home...
...married one (Mary Storer Potter) in 1831, but she died four years later while they were traveling in Holland. Only months had passed when, in Switzerland, he met statuesque Fanny Appleton. a proper Bostonian of 19 whose wealth and social position matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom every U.S. child would associate with Hiawatha and spreading chestnut trees, but Harvard had given him a chair...