Word: mournful
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...with names of congressmen who supported the bill and the words “Vote for Torture 2006.” Some wore black bags over their heads. Micheal Jones, a staff member of the HLS Human Rights Program, read a eulogy that began “today we mourn the death of a living document” as students dropped daisies on a pile of dirt below a cardboard headstone that read “RIP the Constitution.” The mock funeral took place after an open-mic forum in which speakers expressed their views...
...particularly challenged us with this dilemma. The shootings are so inexplicable that traditional ways of honoring the dead seem to pale. When these rituals were first scripted, did anyone conceive that they would need to address a loss as unfathomable as this? And how do the rest of us mourn respectfully without looking like we?re rubbernecking at a car accident...
...Valentine's Day 1884, less than four years after Roosevelt's wedding, his mother and wife die within hours of each other, in the same house. His first child, Alice, is just two days old. That summer he flees to Dakota to mourn, staying for two years (and acquiring a second ranch, Elkhorn), while his sister Bamie rears Alice. During this time, work is completed on Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt's spacious home in Oyster Bay, N.Y., which will serve as the summer White House from...
...NAHC President Leah R. Lussier ’07, and had invited others to join him. Meat was taking time off this semester to spend it at home. Under the auspices of the Harvard University Native American Program, some 25 undergraduates and graduates gathered over dinner last night to mourn Meat’s death. Yesterday, Lussier became the bearer of news that she called “literally tragic.” In the morning, she got a call from her father, who is a friend of Meat’s extended family. They belong to the same tribe...
...celebrate a tragedy is an odd thing; it seems difficult to know whether to mourn an age or to applaud its death. The former is nostalgic, the latter ironic. Though to presume either is perhaps to overestimate the good gentlemen of the Fly, who did not think so deeply...