Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sad and modest way, Jakob finds the centralized, autocratic German state harsh and arbitrary as well. It scorns the old, leaving them to languish and wither in unheated anonymity, and sends the young to the trenches. As Hegel claims, not without graceful ride, states disembowel individuals on "the slaughter bench of history...
...technological passion of institute directors, people talk knowledgeably about "windows of vulnerability." "throw-weight," and of putting missiles on trains, an idea as absurd as mounting them in baby carriages. But as we, like Europe before 1914, lunch we know not where, absurdity becomes dangerous, and no longer only sad, as was Jakob's bitter luxury. Next time, no one will read of an old man's cold pleasures, of musing over weak tea about shattered, harmonies and faded memories, in ruins wrought by creatures who, in their foolish scribblings, advised their children to crouch under school desks...
...sad commentary on the mentality and sensitivity of the American public that it is willing to equate the use of four-letter words with another four-letter word: star. The pollution that flows from this man should restrict him to blue night clubs rather than elevate him to top-dollar stardom...
...exercise class, and they find life at Canyon Ranch irritatingly spartan. They are especially cross about being asked to think. "We have to choose our own classes here," whines one. The quiet blond in the corner has been here for six months and has lost 100 Ibs. The pounds, sad to say, do not come cheap: Canyon Ranch is not wildly expensive as such spas go, but it still costs about $1,000 a week during the peak season...
SUCH A SHAMEFUL AND SAD situation demands action, but under existing conditions, little can be done to rescue Amerasians from their lives of misery...