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...reporter that he had not wept at his own father's death, but he was weeping today. Say what? But this is the way the whole year of 1997 has gone. Every few weeks in the past 12 months, something happened to invite an emotional public reaction of mass grief, panic or elation, often wildly disproportional to the significance of the event. Most of these eruptions had little staying power, but for the moments of their blazing they were huge, sometimes frightening...
None of the year's mass responses could hold a candle in scope and complexity to the astonishing grief inspired by Princess Diana's car-accident death, of course. (There were even spin-off mass responses of rage toward the paparazzi, who trailed her car into the Paris tunnel, and of generosity toward the charities the princess sponsored.) But other major displays of widespread feeling occurred in the sorrow at the death of Mother Teresa, the anger at both verdicts in the Boston "au pair trial" of Louise Woodward, and the celebration at the birth of the McCaughey septuplets...
...that the death of Diana came simply as one loss and absence too many. Whatever else Diana was in the world, she effected a lovely presence, and who could not weep for the loss of that? Gone, Diana seemed to emblemize the word; she was everything gone. One grief stood for all. As in any epiphany, many people probably did not even know why they were weeping...
...death last week of a 16-year-old Dorchester High School student has left a group of Harvard friends--the volunteers of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Franklin Summer Program --stricken with grief and shock...
...such tampering with a beloved classic--a play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony in 1956 and was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1959. But The Diary of Anne Frank has never been an ordinary work of literature; more like a communal rite of grief. The journal has probably conveyed the horror of the Holocaust more personally to more people than any other document. Yet some scholars have objected that popularizers of the diary have sanitized its content and distorted its message...