Word: grief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that trip could have used the royalties from his recent book on the strike of April 1969 to finance the flight to the funeral. Let's hope he will now donate from those royalties a large amount to the family of James Earl Green and show his personal grief...
...tactics of grief worked, and she became the world's first female Prime Minister, serving for five years before she was defeated by conservative Dudley Senanayake. Last week, after a completely dry-eyed campaign, Mrs. Bandaranaike returned to power in a runaway victory that gave her Communist-backed Sri Lanka Freedom Party 96 of Parliament's 157 seats...
Murder, Not War. The shelling was Israel's worst civilian catastrophe since the Six-Day War, and the nation responded with grief and anger. "This is murder, not war." protested an army doctor working on the victims. A group known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, headed by Ahmed Jebreel, a 35-year-old former army officer, quickly claimed credit for the attack. The same group also boasted three months ago of engineering the mid-air explosion of an Israel-bound Swissair jet in which 47 died. Jebreel wired Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Verkade, Lucchesi has a stop-action photographic eye and delights in off-center, cantilevered poses that seem to defy the laws of gravity. He too specializes in capturing moments of everyday human drama. One work in his current exhibition shows an old woman lying on her deathbed with a grief-stricken young girl stretched out across her legs. "It's a tribute to my mother, who died last year," the sculptor explains. "The other person on the bed is really my soul, I guess...
...brief career, the only grief that British Playwright Joe Orton ever visited on anyone in the theater was his untimely death at the age of 34. Orton gleefully beat sacred cows on their way to the last roundup (Entertaining Mr. Shane; TIME, Oct. 22, 1965). He was a black-comedy farceur who could dance on a coffin and spit in the corpse's eye (Loot; TIME, March 29, 1968). It has been said that "a joke is a scream for help." In Orton's mouth, a joke was an urbane substitute for murder. He was a wild Wilde...