Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back as we know anything about it." Freud's reactions to his mother's death at 95 were unusual. She had been in great pain, so he was glad of her release. Beyond that, he was relieved that now he was free to die without causing her grief-he had always, he said, been afraid that he might die first and cause her suffering. Freudian Jones sees in this an unanalytic rationalization, suggests that unconsciously Freud could not bear the possibility of death unless through it he could rejoin his mother, to whom he was deeply and Oedipally...
...mother of three children (one of them in his teens) Caitlin was expected by the prim and proper Welsh ladies to wear her widow's weeds decorously. Instead, "I stole their sons and husbands." By her testimony, she used sex to drown her grief, but it did not work: there was only "an increase in my inescapable dedication to Dylan." With the Welsh ladies' faces set against her like so many druid stones, Caitlin took her five-year-old son Colm and fled into exile, to the Italian island of Elba...
Amid the stunned grief and angry outcry in Germany that greeted the news of the Pamir's loss, there were many to complain of a needless sacrifice of the nation's youth, but many more to defend the tradition they died by. There still were eager cadets aplenty to sign for the next voyage of the Passat...
...hell are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, anyway? Merely Nobel Prizewinners who have written sentimental slop . . . And Steinbeck-pooh ! A lowly proletarian who drips grief over his characters. Then there's James Gould Cozzens, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, whose quoted utterances reflect flashes of his own many-faceted snooty character. Sex. "What's a woman for?" "The thing you have to know is yourself; you are people." And so, his stable of characters, I suspect, is a hash-up of his own personality...
...came to grief...