Word: grief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal politician today. While looking all over the land for peoples to be saved-blacks, Puerto Ricans, the poor, Mexicans, Eskimos-Mr. Kennedy and his associates, when confronted with the opportunity of saving a single but real human life, failed miserably to take any action. They were paralyzed by "grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock...
...inability to act with clarity of mind in the face of personal crisis. The legal advice at his elbow was not worthy of that respected profession. It worries me that this young man would be no better advised when the safety of my fellow Americans is involved. The grief that has plagued the Kennedy family is sorely regretted, but in the interests of our national security, Senator Kennedy would be doing a noble service to retire from our governmental councils. HOWARD L. CHASE Lebanon...
...writers, the column actually ought to be better. The savvy, wry Mankiewicz, 45, is a former Peace Corps director for Latin America who became Robert Kennedy's press secretary. He is best known to the public for his sure handling of televised press conferences, despite his grief, after the Senator was shot. But he is also admired by reporters for the kind of whimsy that led him to explain away the biting of two ladies by Bobby's Newfoundland, Brumus, when a group visited the Kennedy home last year. "I only wish to point out," he said soberly...
...Kennedy keeps turning the conversation away from her own family's grief to that of Mary Jo Kopechne's parents. Their agony reminds her of the Euripides tragedy, The Trojan Women. "It is fundamentally unnatural for an older person to have to bury a younger one," she explains...
...through his mind, said Kennedy, including the notion that perhaps the event had not happened at all, or, on the other hand, perhaps "some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys." He added: "I was overcome, I am frank to say, by a jumble of emotions ?grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock...