Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last link to a certain kind of past, and that is part, but only part, of why we mourn so. Jackie Kennedy symbolized -- she was a connection to a time, to an old America that was more dignified, more private, an America in which standards were higher and clearer and elegance meant something, a time when elegance was a kind of statement, a way of dressing up the world, and so a generous act. She had manners, the kind that remind us that manners spring from a certain moral view -- that you do tribute to the world and the people...
While we should mourn the loss of a fellow human being, Nixon's mistakes must be remembered...
...remember that while everyone else was out playing football, you were watching and wishing you could be with them," says Lipshultz. Through support groups and counseling, many polio survivors are for the first time putting those unpleasant memories behind them. "Many of us never got a chance to mourn our losses," says Shnaider. "It's important for people with postpolio to face their experience and allow themselves to feel...
This was perhaps the closest anyone came to serious analytic thought during Mardi Gras. Some people mourn the loss of the venerable Comus, Momus and Proteus parades, and say that, as private organizations, the krewes, fair or not, shouldn't be controlled by the city. Others say that it was high time that a move towards integration was jump-started, and point out that the city spends much money cleaning up after the parades...
...indifference soon, we will have new holocausts to mourn...