Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8--Amidst hysterical sorrow and calm remembrance, the ceremonies planned for the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy '48 were duly carried out today...
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...bier of Alabama's late Governor Lurleen Wallace, but shied away in fear of provoking an incident. Instead, he sent Husband George a telegram that read: "I have just received the shocking news of the passing of your wife. Please know that we share your grief and sorrow, and our prayers are with you and your children...
...When on Wednesday, the flags go all the way up and the stores are open--won't we have business as usual?" he asked. "Won't all the mourning be no more than a handling of our shock? St. Paul spoke of two kinds of sorrow--the godly kind which leads to change and the sorrow of the world which leads only to tears and once the tears are dry, passes away. Which kind is ours...
...sick," wrote Max Lerner, "and there are a lot of sick people in America. But it is folly to jump from this to a total indictment of a total nation." The wave of mourning that has swept the nation, continued Lerner, is "composed of equal parts of authentic sorrow, of guilt feelings and the fake-hypocritical. There are blacks who, after his death, made a mystique of destroying the cities he wanted to save, and there are whites so guilt-ridden and impassioned that their feeling about the burning cities is 'Let them burn.' " Expression of anger...