Word: grief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brood upon your face, the geography of grief...
...North have been decaying for years, and Johnson has done nothing to reverse that trend. Working-class families grown affluent because of general prosperity are defecting to Nixon and Wallace. Negroes, while generally loyal, are distracted by the anti-Establishment mood of their militant elements and by grief over the loss of their favorite, Robert Kennedy. Some black voters may sit out the election...
...theory, the inhumanity of man to man. For this Russia, Solzhenitsyn's novels are both painful and healing. They expose every layer of Stalinist repression. And they are addressed, above all, to Russia and her people. Solzhenitsyn's world is one of almost private Russian concern and grief, which no Westerner may lightly enter or vulgarize in glib anti-Communist terms. Those who have not been through the agonies of the camps, the shocks of alternating liberalization and repression can scarcely pass judgment. This is why Solzhenitsyn did not want his work published abroad, lest it be abused for political...
Solzhenitsyn's account of the fate of prisoners' wives is the most sorrowing part of The First Circle. His cool realism is suffused with a rush of personal grief as he describes Gleb Ner-zhin's Nadya: waiting outside prisons for a glimpse of her husband, allowed rare letters and rarer visits, herself persecuted whenever her relationship to a prisoner is discovered?and, finally, driven to divorce in self-defense. (Solzhenitsyn's own wife, Natalya, divorced him at his urging while he was in prison. She remarried and bore two children, but after his release she divorced her second husband...
...Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around began falling. I grabbed a tree and hung on. When the dust settled and I could see again, my house was gone. My wife and my daughters were dead." Kakhk was leveled to rubble, and 6,000 of its inhabitants...