Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hatred of Bolshevism, of the value of the party congress. Later, Helms would write: "No imagination could make anything godlike out of the ordinary mortal who chatted on that day. The striking things were the ready intelligence, the understanding of German psychology, the complete assuredness." But the sad fact was that Helms was only one of a small group of journalists and diplomats who understood the Nazi menace when there might have been time to stop Hitler...
...most people the life of a foolish punk like Rutledge does not count for much. He is defective. His death would not be unbearably sad, but his destruction by the state of Alabama would be: not a large tragedy, not final proof that the U.S. is barbaric, but still better left undone. Executing Rutledge would be a waste, not so much of his diminished humanity, but of society's moral capital. The gunslinging heroes of corny adventure fiction had it right: there are guys not worth killing. Let Rutledge sit and stew...
Ostensibly designed for the protection of minors, in reality these bills have been served up by the New Right in part to deter abortion. The sad irony is that, in inducing many teenagers to forego contraception, they might well increase the number of abortions--and particularly the number of dangerous and even fatal ones--performed by quacks...
...case with I through XXIX, No. XXX has the same basic cast and follows the same basic plot: the half-sad, half-funny adventures of a middle-aged ne'er-do-well through a bustling modern-day Japan. The collective title of the series is A Man's Life Is Tough, but Get Out Your Handkerchiefs might be more...
...backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...