Word: mournings
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...early for most of us to mourn the passing of our adolescence. We may have to be well past it before we can mourn. Maturity picks out in memory the high points of youth--and leaves the low points to oblivion or rueful laughter. But who can deny that adolescence can be a hell-in-the-mind...
...assault. From throughout New York and across its borders, prison officers, state troopers and other lawmen arrived in Attica to attend a solemn and trying round of wakes and funerals for the slain hostages. Dressed in trim uniforms and saluting sharply, but sometimes weeping, they helped the town mourn...
...many American radicals, white and black alike, the truth about what happened at San Quentin does not matter; they are convinced beyond doubt that George Jackson was a political martyr. It is sad that many of those who mourn Jackson are oblivious to the fact that three guards and two other convicts died with him. It is equally disturbing that Angela Davis' defenders forget that, whatever her innocence or guilt in the episode, four people, including a judge, Jonathan Jackson and two convicts, died in the Marin County Courthouse gun battle. Surely white racists suspected of purchasing guns...
...what England has come to. These are the people whom Jimmy Porter savaged so mercilessly as the detritus of a doomed civilization in Osborne's first play, Look Back in Anger (1956). But now Osborne, who has shifted to the right in recent years, finds much to mourn in that civilization's passing. The bright, bitchy banter of the sisters-one notably played by Jill Ben nett (Mrs. John Osborne)-is pierced by nostalgia when the old writer reminisces about damp England, colonial days, his own youth when he never really felt young. The latter-day equivalent...
...tension," not peace, guarantees a sizable role for Moscow in the Middle East. Premier Kosygin and the high-powered four-man delegation of military and Middle East experts who accompanied him to Cairo were not there merely to mourn Nasser. The Russians may be hoping to influence the selection of his successor; the day after Nasser was buried, Kosygin and Soviet First Deputy Defense Minister Matvei Zakharov discussed matters with Sadat and former Prime Minister Ali Sabry, who is Russia's foremost advocate in Egypt...