Word: sorrowed
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...character of Lincoln in Shenk’s book is one who deprecated himself after his hugely successful speech to financial leaders at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York in 1860, who wrote dismal verses about death and suicide, who emanated sorrow that at once frightened and attracted people near...
...looking for things (doors, security boxes, women) to unlock. Bender ensnares you with an enticing opening line--"The pumpkinhead couple got married"--and confidently leads you into her phantasmagoric realm from there. Thankfully she stops short of fairy-tale morals; in their place we're given sublime studies on sorrow, grief, kindness and love...
...student ambassador to Japan a few years ago, I visited Hiroshima and placed 1,000 paper cranes as an offering at the Peace Memorial. I realized that emotions of sorrow are universal. Once you stand in a place that has suffered as much as Hiroshima, you understand that world peace is not some clich? idea. Trisha Saha Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...relatives were told the men had died when a prison ship carrying them was sunk. "We only found out in 1997 what really happened," says June Woods, 69, whose father Alfred Burgess was one of the victims. "The government should have held the Japanese responsible." Sixty years on, the sorrow of her loss is deepened by the sense of betrayal she feels. "It was definitely covered up. There's got to be hundreds more that don't even know their dads were on that island. I think it's awful not to know...
...should own up to all the war crimes its armed forces committed prior to that. Lisa Ahlqvist Copenhagen As a student ambassador to Japan a few years ago, I visited Hiroshima and placed 1,000 paper cranes as an offering at the Peace Memorial. I realized that emotions of sorrow are universal. Once you stand in a place that has suffered as much as Hiroshima, you understand that world peace is not some cliché idea. Trisha Saha Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. I am the same age as Sakaru Takigawa, one of the men whose picture was included in your...