Word: mourning
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Brandon M. Trama ’06, who said he thinks about Sept. 11 constantly, said he welcomed the opportunity to mourn with fellow students today after disappointment that his Connecticut high school left students to cope with the attacks on their own last year...
...power to confront such issues because it's primarily entertainment." Rylance also quotes Shakespeare on the role of an entertainer from As You Like It: "Invest me in my motley: give me leave/ To speak my mind, and I will ... / Cleanse the foul body of the infected world." To mourn, to discuss, to try to make things better - the arts world has set itself a mighty task following Sept. 11. And the words are starting to flow...
...People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when . . . People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies...
...prepared to fight for every inch of quiet space. Silence may be the only response that can equal in power the atrocity that was Sept. 11. But in a city like New York, where commotion is everything, silence has few advocates. "We want a reflective area where people can mourn and be quiet," says Rick Bell of the American Institute of Architects. "But a district that's revitalized is also a living memorial...
...families of victims consider Shanksville first and foremost a mass grave. When they speak of the site's future, some invoke Arlington or Gettysburg; others want their own private place to mourn. But to most, a memorial conveys a measure of finality that is still too much to bear. "The shock keeps me living in perpetual rawness," says Kimi Beaven, whose husband Alan perished on Flight 93. "As much as I would love to put my heart and mind around my husband's final resting place, I would far rather just let it be the peaceful place that...