Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official totals will probably exceed 2000--has stunned the general public. In a nation of two--and--a--half million, the loss of over 2000 young men in three weeks is crippling. In every household, the family has lost either a son or a cousin. An atmosphere of national grief has set in, immediately apparent to any visitor. Israel is a nation in mourning, stunned by the onslaught against...
...this might sound grim in outline. But Author B.S. Johnson balances it with compassion and a humor that is alternately wry and ribald. Christie's adventures, whether in a bank, confectionery factory, or bed, are all double-entries. Action and futility, joy and grief, pique and nobility-everything counts, everything matters. Debit boredom, credit Johnson! A remarkable little book...
...same image with which it opened, and with an especially crafty little twist. It should not diminish the viewer's surprise too much to say that Siegel takes a tangible joy in watching the last of the independents outfox the various organizations that have been causing him grief. Charley Varrick is a sort of backhanded testament to the wisdom that comes with experience...
Intransigence is not an Israeli monopoly, nor reasonableness a dominant trait in Arab policy. So interwoven are the rights and wrongs of the Arab and Israeli cases, so conflicting their claims to a twice-Promised Land, so much death and grief and hurt a part of existence to both peoples, so real their fears and so inescapable their hostility, that outsiders who arrive there to talk of evenhandedness, fair-mindedness and rational solutions find themselves instantly suspect for their naiveté. The most egregious assumption that outsiders make is that their detachment gives them superior wisdom. In fact, the intractable...
...influence to get into the White House. But despite this job in a safe haven, the rumors persist in Washington and California, as they have for years, that Don Nixon is often on the verge of somehow getting tangled up in some kind of deal that could cause grief for his brother...