Word: griefs
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...death of Hu last April precipitated a crisis. When expressions of grief sparked in Tiananmen the demands for greater democracy, differences between the factions left the leadership impotent to take a united stand on how to cope with an unprecedented event. As the leaders dithered, the protest swelled...
...agency to modest offices in Moscow's suburbs. Turn its forbidding headquarters at Dzerzhinsky Square into a library. "The bloody history of the main building is too unforgettable," he said. "This is where, for decades, orders for the destruction and persecution of millions were sent out. This service sowed grief, cries, torture on its native land...
This tradition of dissident speech in previous years paved the way for this current massive expression of protest. The students grasped the opportunity provided by the death of Hu Yaopang, the former chief of the Chinese Communist Party, to convey their grief as well as their indignation at the political system, the same as they had after the death of Zhou Enlai...
...debacle in Panama is a reminder that the U.S., to its everlasting credit but also to its occasional grief, was never cut out for imperialism. Even the vestige of such an adventure at the beginning of the 20th century is enough to complicate American domestic politics and foreign policy alike at the end of the century. Teddy Roosevelt not only dug the big ditch but helped carve out the little nation around it by supporting secessionists in a malaria-ridden province of Colombia. But no good deed in the pursuit of empire goes unpunished. The legacy that T.R. left...
...part-subliminal and Picasso's wholly deliberate, of the same antique fantasy of ideal beings on the Mediterranean shore. The point is made by Reni's Bacchus and Ariadne, with its enameled colors, its air of travesty -- one doesn't believe for a second in jilted Ariadne's grief, but one does wonder what her right hand is about to do -- and its iron-butterfly stylishness. This is an idyll that makes no bones about its own artificiality. Brilliance is all, and it is just enough...