Word: grief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bids for Sympathy. Johnson's concern with his image led, nonetheless, to a mawkish display of official grief over the death of Him, the family beagle that was run over last week by a limousine in the White House driveway. Reporters were solemnly informed of daughter Lynda Bird's reaction (she burst tearfully in on a meeting with Congressmen to tell her father), of Lady Bird's reaction ("It makes you feel you have been hit in the stomach with a hard rock"), of Lyndon's reaction ("We are having a sad time at the White...
Simenon's prose rejoices in the virtues of his virtuosity: it is economical, supple, precise. The stories tend to go on too long, as though Simenon were afraid that he had not really gotten to the heart of his characters. But he writes entertainingly about corruption, cruelty or grief because he jousts at human follies without judging them...
...Dick and butler to the rescue. The butler bravely ascended the fir, but when he started down with Charlie, the cat squirmed loose, plummeting onto Liz's head and misbehaving on the spot. Then the butler's ladder fell, also clonking Charlie's mistress. Good grief. Charlie Brown...
...crowds give massive support to the making of an image. As violent contrast, the movie cuts with maudlin frequency to Kennedy's funeral preparations in Washington. Every sequence is anguishing, relentlessly focused on the ordeal of a benumbed young widow guiding her children through the protocol of official grief...
...generation, the somber record of all men who not only bore themselves well in the face of a great calamity, but found their lives enhanced by it. There is no rhetoric; Chapman puts out no flags, but guards the human honor of his battalion like a mourner concealing his grief from strangers at the graveside...