Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While hundreds of thousands of Chinese-bureaucrats and party officials, generals, peasants, children-filed past Mao's bier in a somber, emotional ceremony at Peking's Great Hall of the People (see box next page), millions more paid their respects by following the official admonition to "turn grief into strength...
...post-Mao leadership headed by Premier Hua seems to be saying that the Peking regime will continue to function despite the genuine national grief over Mao's passing. An editorial published in China's major newspapers cited what was claimed to be a previously unpublished dictum from Mao: "Act according to the principles laid down." Mao's successors, the implication was, would follow the basic domestic and foreign policies established before the Chairman's death...
...modern Olympic Games date from 1896 and were begun to promote sportsmanship and world peace. The original Olympics started in Greece in 776 B.C. and had their roots in the games staged by Achilles outside the walls of Troy to allay his grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. Now, just in time to coincide with the goings on in Montreal, two classicists and sports fans, M.I. Finley of England's Cambridge University and H.W. Picket of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, have culled through ancient records, reviewed the writings of poets and philosophers from Pindar...
...praise he will undoubtedly continue to receive for this book--for its sweep and beauty, for his faith in its importance which sustained him, and for the honesty which informs it. He is explicit: he writes that Friendly Fire depends on "the exploitation of Peg Mullen's grief" and he is ambivalent about that, as he should be. Bryan last week recalled a visit he made recently to a Western college where, to his surprise, the discussion centered around the "style" of the book. Bryan, a low-keyed person, blurted out, "Style is not what matters--this book is about...
...their grief, the people of Yuba City were drawn together-by the ties of tragedy and friendship, by anger at prying reporters (some of whom were thrown off the high school campus and out of several stores) and by good deeds. Within hours of the accident, school officials established a Yuba City Choir Memorial Fund, which quickly collected $10,000 in cash and pledges for another $20,000. Private pilots ferried parents of the injured students, free of charge, to hospitals in Martinez. The Loyal Order of the Moose set up a center that collected 313 pints of blood...