Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America cannot escape responsibility for Viet Nam. Nor can the recognition of Saigon's own fatal weakness, which is ultimately to blame, assuage the national grief for the Vietnamese in their final agony. But America did not enlist in the war for life. There cannot be an infinite cycle of protests, recrimination and guilt. The U.S. has paid for Viet Nam-many times over. A phase of American history has finished. It is time to begin anew...
...death last week Faisal was mourned by an imposing delegation of Arab leaders, ranging from ardent socialists like Algeria's Houari Boumedienne to semifeudal sheiks from neighboring gulf coast states. The King would probably have been more moved, however, by the national outpouring of grief from Saudis of every level, with whom he had never lost touch...
What she wanted was to express her sense of loss, her grief and affection for someone she had never seen. She had cherished that desire so long that the image of the dead infant had become a symbol of yearning...
...temple bells ring in the new year. In this city of shrines lives Otoko, with whom he had had a passionate affair 20 years earlier. She was a schoolgirl and he a young married man, and a child was stillborn from their love. For a time Otoko's grief unbalanced her. Toshio did not see her again, but his first novel, which idealized their love, became a bestseller and in fact still supports the author, his wife, and their grown...
...that Attica prisoners had revolted and were holding hostages, Alpert says she knew instantly that Melville would be killed. As she tells it, confirmation came from a Los Angeles radio announcer who said, "Here's one death no one will regret-Samuel Melville, the mad bomber." In her grief, she blurted out to a friend that she had known one of the Attica victims. When the friend innocently passed the word around, Alpert took to the road once again...