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...cosmology; three vast galactic empires (two benign, one evil) and mysterious universal harmonies that, when slightly untuned, wrecked life on Shikasta. a small planet suspiciously similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul Mates | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...edge of her bed, eyes cast downward. Though she spoke evenly and matter-of-factly, her eyes murmured a deeper sorrow, deeper than her words, deeper than a child of 13 must usually bear...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The Decolonization of Carville | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

Crimson captain Mike Desaulniers, however, captured the "A" division laurels to cap off his brilliant career. Desaulniers compiled an undefeated record over his four years as Harvard's resident squash ace. His parting will breed sweet sorrow...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Racquetmen Take Fourth; Desaulniers Grabs Crown | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...knew that Troy had fallen, Polymestor murdered the boy and took the gold. Unknown to him, the sea-rotted corpse has drifted to shore and is dumped before Hecuba's gaze. She is past weeping by now. She wants the gift of death, surcease from all sorrow. But she has a priority: vengeance. Before the final curtain, Polymestor lurches forward on all fours, his eye sockets craters of streaming blood. He utters the primal howl that punctuates these plays. It is the moment when all reason has toppled and the dogs of fate rend man with total indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Olympus on the Thames | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Most of the available funds-around $325,000-will be spent on TV and radio advertising in New England. Some of the ads will try to deal with Chappaquiddick. After his Monday speech, Kennedy appeared on New England television to express fervently his sorrow over the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Said he: "I know there are people who will never believe me, no matter what I say. I do ask you to judge me by the basic American standard of fairness, not on the basis of gossip and speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Sail Against the Wind | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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