Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire world will mourn the loss of the three astronauts [Feb. 3]. It is certain that the last thing the three gallant men concerned would wish would be for the space program to be abandoned. The benefits already given to mankind as a result of the space program are indeed tremendous, thanks to the devotion to duty of all concerned. Thank you, U.S.A...
...also spent some time in the service (four years in the Marines and three years in the Army, all on active duty), and the world did not stand mournfully weeping because I had to eat C rations. Neither will Rosner mourn eternally for the slobs still in the boondocks once he gets his discharge. At the moment, it is simply his turn in the barrel, just as it was for the boys in Korea before him, and for the boys in World War II before them, ad infinitum...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," an adaptation of John (The Spy Who Came In . . .) Le Carré's story about an ingenious escape plan from Communist East Berlin. Filmed in medieval West German towns, with James Mason, Hugh Griffith and Jill Bennett in the leading roles...
...Jean Jaurès faced 555 fellow Socialists of 23 nations, gathered to demonstrate the supposed unity of the world's workers against war. The tolling of church bells reminded Jaurès of Schiller's Song of the Bells: "I summon the living, I mourn the dead, I break the furnaces." Cried Jaurès: "I call on the living that they may defend themselves from the monster who appears on the horizon. I weep for the countless dead now rotting in the East. I will break the thunderbolts of war which menace from the skies." Eighteen...
...outward signs of mourning-veils and widow's weeds, black hat-and armbands, crape-hung doorways-are going the way of the hearse pulled by plumed horses. There is almost no social censure against remarrying a few months after bereavement in what one psychiatrist calls "the Elizabeth Taylorish way" (referring to her statement six months after Husband Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash: "Mike is dead now, and I am alive"). Many psychologists who have no quarrel with the life-must-continue attitude are dubious about the decline in expression of grief. Psychology Professor Harry W. Martin...