Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard to learn that he is considered, by Washington's standards, "dovish" or "soft" on Vietnam. This does not mean that he favors either total or unilateral withdrawal from the war; in fact, Huntington consistently argues that, as he put it in a subsequent study, "much of our grief in Vietnam has come as a result of our not becoming deeply enough involved in Vietnamese politics," whereas the crucial assumption of a unilateral withdrawal policy is that Washington must renounce any role in the internal political life of the Vietnamese. At the same time, Huntington's government activity...
...reporter for a newspaper in St. John's. Smitten with socialism, he emigrated to New York City, where he wrote inflammatory stories for the socialist daily Call. Returning to Newfoundland in 1925, Joey became a labor leader and at one point "walked myself down to skin and grief" over 600 miles of railroad track to organize the section...
...uncanny gift for writing well about their nation even when they think ill of it. They can poke peevishly in the guttering embers of empire and the grate of memory flickers with glories past. David Storey has an option on this territory, and he looks back more in grief than in anger. He searches for the severed link with the imperial past. How did today's termites, he seems to ask, descend from yesterday's titans? He is a dramatic laureate of loss...
...should one respond, then, to a full evening's entertainment entitled You're a Good Man. Charlie Brown. On first thought--you're a dead man, Charlie Brown. But as Ed Zwick's production proves Charlie Brown's grief can still be good...
...Beds for Grief. On the roof of the vertical mortuary will be a heliport, so that bodies can be flown in quickly from outlying areas. There will be an eight-story garage for visitors, two churches and 21 chapels. Each of the latter has a bed for grieving friends and relatives. Explains Architect Dy-lardo Silva e Souza: "Who wants to spend the night in the kind of cemetery we have now?" Another feature: soothing but somber background music, 24 hours a day. "We can't play sambas in a place like this," says Silva e Souza...