Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These new strategies--developed in the midst of the frustrations and failures of the 1980s--have shown that the left has finally followed the advice of one of their greatest icons, martyred labor organizer Joe Hill: "Don't Mourn--Organize...
...Holmes, no Connoisseur model like James Bond. Just an underpaid drudge with, as one mobster says, "no dough, no family, no prospects, no nothing" -- except a habit of making other people's worries his own, and a gift for walking in on corpses he knows just well enough to mourn...
...respects to a man very few Americans had ever heard of. Secretary of State William Rogers, Senator Edward Kennedy and conservative columnist Joseph Alsop were there, as were General William Westmoreland and Daniel Ellsberg, who was about to stand trial for leaking the Pentagon papers. They had come to mourn John Paul Vann, one of the nation's proconsuls in Viet Nam, who had died in a helicopter crash. "In this war without heroes," writes Neil Sheehan at the beginning of his engrossing and provocative new book, "this man had been the one compelling figure...
...Northern Ireland, black flags nailed to telephone poles fluttered desultorily in an autumn mist. In Dungannon an Irish tricolor flew at half-staff, while in Carrickmore the sidewalk curbs were painted orange, white and green. Thus last week did supporters of the tiny but lethal Irish Republican Army mourn the loss of three ranking "volunteers" -- two of them brothers -- who had been shot to death by British commandos in an ambush near Carrickmore...
What a change! For decades, while Soviet leaders went about the business of state, their spouses remained virtually invisible. The wives of Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Chernenko rarely appeared in public. It was not known for sure that Yuri Andropov even had a wife until she showed up to mourn him at his 1984 funeral...