Word: mourner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to make merry, no place for the mourner...
...lacks only one component-truth. As two newly reissued volumes show, Camus was not a mourner of the human condition but its celebrant. The two-volume Notebooks (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $3.95 each) follow the writer from 1935 to 1951 and neatly cleave the legend from the man. In the process they show why his formal works are as pertinent as the day they were written, a world...
...citizens of Vitoria carried the coffins of the slain through their streets last week, one mourner warned darkly, "We want to know who is responsible for these things. It is not enough to have some resignations." As if to underline the widespread anger, Basque leftists and separatists vowed to continue work stoppages this week. Juan Carlos will not find it easy to appease that anger and to keep at bay those who feel the need to reimpose the old days of order and discipline...
...riderless horse, a caravan of 21 cars and a hearse briskly transferred the body from a funeral home to the Truman Library in Independence. There some 75,000 people queued patiently through the night, some carrying sleeping children in their arms, to file past the mahogany coffin. Explained one mourner from Independence: "This whole town was a friend of Harry's." A wreath of red, white and blue carnations (Truman's favorite flowers) was placed at the casket by President Nixon, who, with Pat, also visited the plain white frame Truman house on Delaware Street. Nixon told...
Keach's Hamlet, in the current New York Shakespeare Festival production at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, is not the brooding surgeon of his agonized soul, not a raging, grieving mourner at the yawning grave of all existence. Instead he is a kind of Danish Willy Loman. He would like to be well-liked at Elsinore. He barely sniffs the stench of corruption at the court but is baffled by the toughness of the territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper...