Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Confrontation. Pinter operates in isolation cells of intense domesticity. If there is a world outside the womb walls of his plays, no one could guess it. Beckett is in a paralyzed eye-socket-to-eye-socket confrontation with a cosmos vacated by God. He refuses to move beyond his grief. Bond says, in effect: "O.K., God is dead, but we've got to work out an ethic whereby we can survive on this planet with some degree of decency." Unlike Pinter, who seems to accept violence as a norm, Bond indicts the value vacuum and brutal boredom in which...
...Sacrilege! Infamy! Libel!" I slashed the teacup to the floor. "Good grief, Holmes! Even during those lonely days in Afghanistan, I never so much as glanced at a subaltern...
...story is built with brisk prose. Little is told about Lise's earlier life, but she hints at the source of her tragedy in the only moment when her resolve wavers: "I want to go back home and feel all that lonely grief again. I miss it so much already." She recovers her imbalance quickly. She has been life's victim long enough. By deciding to die violently, she has achieved the illusion of control over her own fate...
Forgiveness in Grief...
...Nixon had not sent Secretary of State William Rogers. It was Rogers who devised the cease-fire that Nasser accepted in August, and his presence might have helped mend the fractured relations between the U.S. and the Arabs. As one observer put it: "The Arabs forgive everything in their grief, you know...