Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trangressions in Vietnam. Instead, we find a portrait of a president deeply saddened that the war will tarnish his place in history as a great domestic leader. With Lyndon Johnson, Kearns earns an undistinguished berth among those former White House officials who expect us to agonize over the personal grief of the president who remorselessly planned the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people...
...save companies a lot of grief by eliminating the bad risks." Hall said. "We are interested in people who are known bilkers...
...Heywood) gets the group together, feeling that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. The tea is a witches' brew. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is inconsolable, in the sense that grief is incomprehensible...
...Michael's death radicalized his parents-particularly his mother-because their basic conservative values had been shattered. As Peg Mullen became convinced that her son's life was wasted by an accident in a war that itself was a mistake, the line between her grief and fury vanished. She grew obsessed with extracting from the Government every obligation due her. She fought for and won the right to have Michael's body specially escorted home from Viet Nam. When an Army liaison officer told her that it would take 15 more days, Peg replied: "You can tell...
Friendly Fire is not another self-righteous lamentation about the U.S.'s tragic blunderings in Southeast Asia; rather, it is as close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mul len's grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles...