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...this supernatural world view is nothing less than tragic. On a personal level, it is tragic for the Steel's to have their sorrow compounded by insinuations that their daughter got what she deserved. And on the political level, it is tragic because it encourages politicians to speak of divine evils instead of working to combat serious problems such as drunk driving...
...enormous disappointment for those of us who were following the proceedings. To see President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev so warm and cordial with one another at lunch, and so dejected and grim-faced only a few hours later, reflected their, as well as our, sorrow at what almost had been in our grasp...
After less than an hour to pack, Daniloff, dressed in the same clothes he had been wearing when he was arrested, was driven to the airport. There he encountered several reporters standing at the departure gate. "I'm leaving more in sorrow than anger," said Daniloff, who proceeded to recite a more angry than sorrowful poem by the 19th century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov about the "land of masters, land of knaves" (see ESSAY...
...fact, the great sorrow of the Perelmans' lives did not have a sexual cause. In December 1940, West and his new wife Eileen (the title character of My Sister Eileen) were killed in an automobile accident. Laura slowly descended into alcoholism. Perelman mourned privately and rarely discussed his brother-in-law. He went on to write film scripts and plays that failed too often, and he turned out the pieces, mostly for The New Yorker, for which he is remembered: the collisions of Britishisms and Yiddishisms, the classic parodies of James Joyce and Raymond Chandler, the explosive lampoons of popular...
...apparent good health, Paley has slowed down considerably and suffers from memory lapses. Yet friends describe him as still capable of wielding influence. "He is the most competitive person I've ever met," says Financier Felix Rohatyn. "It was obvious that Bill was watching with a great deal of sorrow and frustration as this great enterprise that he built began to fray at the edges...