Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the friends and family make it to the funeral home they find the De Molays already arrived and the undertaker in full mourning clothes at the door, wearing his grief like a tight-fitting hat, his face pale, his eyes drawn tight almost in a squint. When people see the body they remark that the undertaker has done a good job, for you can hardly tell that Anthony had the side of his face shot away when a land mine exploded, and that the doctors in the Army surgical unit who tried to operate on the poor wounded mass...
...American Shakespeare Festival production of Othello in Stratford, Conn., perpetuates a tradition in which the play and its hero shrink with each successive revival. Moses Gunn and his director Michael Kahn proceed along the familiar tack that Othello is good, loving, noble, trusting and innocent until jealousy and grief tear him asunder. Gunn conveys all of these qualities admirably. His stage presence is commanding and his line delivery persuasive, though it is somewhat mannered when he elongates single words for emphasis...
...buttons and badges of dissent. Posters. Proclamations-demands addressed to the President of the United States, to the Governor of the state, the spelling a trifle erratic. Everywhere, the calls to specific action: organize transport, line up pickets, circulate petitions. It has often been noted that in times of grief or stress, doing concrete things, even small things, brings a sense of relief. So it is here. To a great extent, the purpose of such strikes is action quite divorced from ultimate accomplishment, a desperate desire to shake off a sense of impotence, the need to do something, anything...
Other countries sent transport planes winging to Lima in what the Peruvian press described as "a world air bridge." Tents and medicines arrived by air from Russia, powdered milk from France, more medicines from Spain. French President Pompidou announced a na tional campaign to aid the grief-stricken nation, and Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito asked his countrymen to send contributions. More than 200 Chilean families offered to adopt some of the estimated 5,000 orphaned children. Aid also came from Fidel Castro, who seeks to make common cause with the Peruvian army's radical reform policies. Along with...
...Good Grief. Brewer was content to argue that Wallace would be only a part-time Governor while seeking the presidency. He promised to cut auto-license fees from $13 to $3 and to remove the state sales tax fronr drugs and medicines, calling them "a tax on pain and misery." His ads sometimes replied to Wallace attacks with such opening lines as "Good grief, Mr. Wallace," which sounds sissified in Alabama. His toughest stand was to charge indirectly that a Wallace administration might become a corrupt one, telling voters that "political hacks are trying to defeat me because they want...