Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the present French Assembly expires, all France-and most of the rest of the world, too-will find it easy to contain its grief. In 4½ years, the Assembly has overthrown six governments, spent one week out of every five bogged down in a Cabinet crisis, tabled more than 13,000 bills while approving less than 1,000. Last week the Deputies were maneuvered into voting themselves out of office six months before their time...
...Roomful of Roses nowhere skimps Bridget's plight, but it far from gloomily dwells on it. However valid, Bridget's seems a matinee or televised grief. And Playwright Sommer wants to have her ache and eat it, too. She stirs into the play a full cup of adolescent humor, a level teaspoonful of small-boy remarks, a lightly beaten offstage comedy husband and the juice of one uninhibited maid...
...imitation-grass-carpeted graves, it sets out to pull death's sting and all too often removes its significance, too. In "modern mortuary method," the funeral sermon is frequently nothing more than God's commercial, grooved in, as the authors explain, to "expedite the mourning process," and grief is classified as a "problem of bereavement." Instead of eternal life, the customer is more apt to be promised that in his final resting place he will receive, upon payment into a small sinking fund, "perpetual care...
...with grief for all the countries of the world, as well as for the United States, that I heard of President Eisenhower's heart attack . . . How appalling must be the weight of the responsibility of the decisions we put upon our President, no matter how much advice and assistance we give him, when so many of those decisions are, in the long run, his alone to make...
...what was once a grassy lane, called Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...