Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summation, Defense Attorney Charles Weedman implored the jury to "look at the grief in her face ... hold her hand, and ask yourselves, 'Guilty or not guilty...
...affiliates who may want to live in the Yard. This would alleviate the problem posed by River House sophomores living in Canaday and help reduce the psychological distance affecting North House's popularity. The North House proposal, along with a no-choice system, which would eliminate much of the grief surrounding the current assignment system, would maintain the positive aspects of the Quad. By assigning freshmen to Houses before they get here, the no-choice plan leaves the opportunity to change the Houses while helping to destroy the stereotypes that make the housing problem so difficult to resolve. These stereotypes...
Where Playwright Rudkin eventually falters is in trying to make private grief a metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival...
...makes them insensitive. The point about violence is not so much that it breeds violence-though that is probably true-but that it totally desensitizes viciousness, brutality, murder, death so that we no longer actively feel the pains of the victim or suffer for the mourners or feel their grief. When the Hindenburg blew up, the reporter broke down on the radio. I can't imagine anything like that happening today. I imagine a detached, calm description of the ship going up in flames: "I do believe there will be no survivors." We have become desensitized to things that...
...Brahms Requiem seemed cut from velvet rather than the usual broadcloth. Karajan's reading was a subdued rumination, a realization of the deeply personal utterance the composer drew from the Lutheran Bible. In the elegiac "And ye now therefore have sorrow," Soprano Leontyne Price seemed to distill grief and comfort into a burnished flow of melody...