Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depicting Catholicism's seven corporal works of mercy. One scene, for example, showed Pope John XXIII on his visit to Rome's Regina Coeli prison in 1958; Greco's presentation of burying the dead uses angled limbs and tortured faces to convey a strong sense of grief...
...started with his son Ronnie's intense grief over the assassination of John Kennedy: "I suddenly realized that my concentration on acquiring material goods for my children had been a total waste of time." Soon Willens began worrying about pollution and the Bomb, watching new movies, and listening to the kids' records (Dylan, Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel), which seemed "awful" until he studied the words?youth's plaintive indictment of a nihilistic world...
Ronnie, now 24, later chose not to join his father's "irrelevant" business, won a conscientious-objector status after a harrowing legal battle, and started writing a novel. Meantime, Willens experienced the even more intense grief of Michele, now 21, over the assassination of Robert Kennedy, for whom she had worked. When Michele also quit college, says Willens, "I decided that I had better get off my assets and not let my children become totally disbelieving." As a result, he supported McCarthy and helped organize a group called Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace, which partly financed last fall...
...been picked up for drinking, setting fire to her home and other bizarre behavior, including chalking off a section of the sidewalk and claiming it as her own. In therapy, she revealed that she had yearned all her life for marriage and children. Eventually, she mastered her grief and regrets, settled down and began to enjoy the people around...
...milestone in his life. His son is past the point where dying ends and death begins, and George Blake will take weeks to absorb that fact fully. And maybe in that time he will come to an understanding of why it happened. Now he only his time for grief...