Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Malachy still expresses grief and self-pity at this wife's eventual escape from him, taking their two small children with her. He makes no connection between his own alcohol-fueled irresponsibilities and those of his father, whom he blames bitterly for abandoning his mother and siblings. If he has not learned anything from pondering his disruptive behavior of more than three decades ago, perhaps a memoir is premature...
...Mississippi riverboats on which the white people had never seen Negroes in tuxedos before, and dives where the customers cut and shot one another. One time he witnessed two women fighting to the death with knives. Out of those experiences, everything from pomp to humor to erotic charisma to grief to majesty to the profoundly gruesome and monumentally spiritual worked its way into his tone. He became a beacon of American feeling...
...have mixed feelings about Israel's celebration of its 50 years of statehood [WORLD, May 11]. The founding of the nation signified a birth to Jews but a burial to the Palestinians. Over time, Zionist terrorism was replaced by Palestinian terrorism, and war and grief were never far away. The perpetual threat of conflict forced increases in Israeli defense budgets and made enormous economic support by the U.S. necessary. Against all odds, foreign and internal, the Israelis have managed to build and uphold the most democratic country in the Middle East. However, Israeli society is more torn than ever before...
DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS (July 24). "There will be some weird summer sleeper," says analyst Dixon, "and this could be it." Sleep as in The Big, since this is a black comedy about college kids plotting to drive a roommate to suicide so they'll get an A for grief. With perennial star-of-the-future Tom Everett Scott. Directed by Alan Cohn, who helped create MTV's The Real World, so we'll hope against hope...
...sometimes overexplains: "Oh, well, Eddie thought as he got off the bus--maybe it was almost Ninety-second Street. (It was Eighty-first.)" But these are the lapses of a generous narrator intent on giving his readers not just incidents but a way of making sense of them. "The grief over lost children never dies," Irving writes near the end. His novel shows how and why that statement is true...