Word: sorrowed
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...story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now resign themselves to old age and death, in a manner so dignified that it bespeaks a stoic philosophy, a metaphysical experience of life...
...According to Freud, the ambivalence that men still feel at the death of someone close must have been experienced by primitive man. "It was beside the dead body of someone he loved," wrote Freud, "that he invented spirits, and his sense of guilt at his satisfaction, mingled with his sorrow, turned these newborn spirits into evil demons that had to be dreaded. His persisting memory of the dead became the basis for assuming other forms of existence and gave him the conception of life continuing after apparent death...
...Tennô or Emperor. If one member stains the family reputation, his relatives are expected to make a show of remorse and expiation. In Jerusalem, Japanese Ambassador Eiji Tokura appeared on television. "Dear citizens of Israel," he said in halting Hebrew, "it is my wish 40 express my sorrow and apologize for this terrible crime perpetrated by Japanese nationals." Then he burst into tears...
...feel sorry for the men who have lost their lives in Viet Nam. We should, however, feel more sorrow for the men who will die today and tomorrow. These vain deaths are the most potent reason to stop...
...early days read like a bad Theodore Dreiser novel in their unequal mating of ambition to mediocrity. In high school he rated run of the mill as a student. The caption under his yearbook picture read: "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow." Witcover reports: "Classmates still scratch their heads over what that might mean...