Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is no way to imply approval of the final clubs. They were rightly dissociated from Harvard because of sexist and discriminatory policies. The undergraduate community would be a better place without the clubs. Their very existence is a sad commentary upon Harvard-Radcliffe student life. I deplore the decision by Richard Eisert (or anyone else, for that matter) to join a final club. But that does not provide a basis to judge his ability as chair of the council. Gina Cattalini '87 President, Radcliffe Union of Students
...Santa Barbara, while Reagan spent the Thanksgiving holiday at his California ranch, Correspondent Beckwith interviewed Administration sources. "Their tone was grim," Beckwith reports, "and the overall mood was sad and depressing. Reagan's strength has been as a communicator, yet this time he seems unable to come up with the words that would satisfy people...
Furthermore, in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Thoreau we engaged in basically nonviolent protest. It is extremely sad that there were injuries among both the police and the students. From my vantage point as an arrestee, I was appalled by the large presence of state riot police and examples of unnecessary use of force by the police. Jay Allain
...week Aquino seemed to harden her stance against the rebels, who have refused to discuss a cease-fire since Olalia's murder. Said the President: "We shall never be slaves again -- not to the Communists, who did nothing to help us recover our democracy, nor to the sad remnants of the right who hanker to be our masters again." In the next six weeks the President must continue to reassert her authority in a way that will satisfy the nation and dissipate the rebellious mood within the armed forces...
That is what Morris' short fiction consistently delivers. For every sad event there is a countervailing and arresting image: of swallows on a Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...