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...Stephens puts it, "to talk through her dreadful experience with a parent who had experienced something similar, so that she could begin to absolve herself of blame"-and eventually accept the loss of her child. Without the society, she probably would not have found anyone able to share her sorrow, because, he believes, society quarantines the bereaved exactly as it does people with contagious diseases...
Softening Grief. A year later, the Society of Compassionate Friends was formed, and since then, 20 branches have been set up from Glasgow to Guernsey. The society aims not just at softening grief but at preventing its most damaging results. Explains Stephens: "Parents who cannot share their sorrow sometimes come to reject their remaining children. Or they have another child in the hope of re-creating the one they have lost...
...confused. Fitzgerald is the shy convent girl, the impish coquette and the victim of the lonely despair of a thousand one-night stands spent in second-rate hotels. She blends these elements into a consummately poignant portrait of a woman for whom drugs are the only surcease from sorrow. She, rather than the father, seems to dominate the play...
...running time, a sense of participation in the group experiment. But all this says nothing of the film's human impact: its unrelenting urgency in conveying the depths of the emotional problems that brought the teen agers together. Saturday Morning is, in short, a rare cinematic record of sorrow and discovery...
Today Ota Dōkan's poem is remembered more in sorrow than anything else. His beloved town has mushroomed into the world's most populous-and most polluted-capital, home to 11.4 million gasping people. The fabled pines are suffocating from smog. The blue sea is washed by tons of noxious industrial wastes. Tokyoites lament that soaring Fuji-san, obscured by deadly clouds of sulfur dioxide, shows its face only one day out of every...