Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mothers and fathers as soon as the funeral is over. Even close relatives, trying to be helpful, often remove every trace of the dead child-his books, clothes and toys and games-and encourage parents to forget at a time when their real need is "to work through their grief by talking incessantly and by remembering...
...dying boys: Billy Henderson, 12, who had cancer in his legs, chest and bloodstream; and Kenneth Lawley, 11, with head injuries resulting from a fall from his bike. "Billy died first," said Stephens, "and I felt a need to tell his parents they were not alone in their grief. I told them about Kenneth, and after Kenneth died I introduced the two sets of parents." Adds Joan Henderson: "We found we could cry together about our boys without embarrassment...
Softening Grief. A year later, the Society of Compassionate Friends was formed, and since then, 20 branches have been set up from Glasgow to Guernsey. The society aims not just at softening grief but at preventing its most damaging results. Explains Stephens: "Parents who cannot share their sorrow sometimes come to reject their remaining children. Or they have another child in the hope of re-creating the one they have lost...
...likely to suffer from not being wanted for himself. In other families, says Stephens, a father may try so hard to "keep a stiff upper lip, because it's the British thing to do," that he shows his wife little warmth, and the marriage itself breaks down. The grief over the loss of a child is universal and inevitable. But Stephens insists that the consequences...
...flickers, a tincture of antique dreams and topical allusions. Follies is a play full of ghosts. The young hopefuls whom Weismann nurtured scatter their lines across the stage and run unseen by their older living images?a double exposure in three dimensions. The principals are, literally, beside themselves with grief. For, as it happens, the Weismann theater is not the only institution awaiting the wrecking ball. The other is marriage. Sally and her glib, skirt-chasing husband Buddy (Gene Nelson) have become pathetic caricatures of the Andy Hardy couple they once were?naivete swallowed by facts. Phyllis and her acrid...