Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blinded by a natural fear of that which reveals intimately an insight into our innermost feelings. Let us rather rejoice that we can continually experience through the music of a sincerely inspired man those vital emotions of love, sorrow, and joy. Let us not be swept along with this current to a Tschaikowsky-phobia, which must inevitably vanish and restore the great Russian master to a deserved high place among music's immortals. Andrew Baggaley...
...quiet, I'll tell a story about you." He told it anyhow: how he had once found Churchill in the dumps, had played for him a recording of one of Thompson's praiseful speeches about him. At record's end "the sorrow seemed to drop off his shoulders and he looked a young man again. . . . Now Thompson, if you're not quiet, I'll turn on that record now." Murmured Thompson: "I wish you would...
After his Brother Arnaldo died, he wrote: "For his death I have sorrowed and shall sorrow for long; like the mutilations of the body, those of the soul are irreparable." One morning last week Benito Mussolini, whose soul has lately been scarred almost beyond recognition, was at his desk in Rome. A few minutes after 10 o'clock, the telephone rang. San Giusto Airport, Pisa. An accident. Three killed, five injured. And one of the dead was Benito Mussolini's second boy Bruno; Bruno, the brown one, the good flyer...
...life and war prove even worse than his gloomy forebodings. The war turns his father from a strong patriarch to a cowardly, deceitful, heartbroken old man. Gregor's steady mother expires in a moving death scene; his unloved wife, sick with sorrow over Gregor's infidelity, dies of an abortion; his brother Piotra is shot in cold blood by his Red cousin Mishka; his loose sister-in-law Daria, eaten by venereal disease, drowns herself in the Don; his sister Dunia marries Mishka, who becomes one of those insufferably coldhearted bullies who helped keep together-and poison...
each night I sing a song of sorrow...