Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the ravages of a plague, Cyprian summed up the solaces with which men have long made do in the face of death: the fact that all the great and brave have suffered the same fate, the thought of death as a rest from labor and a surcease from sorrow, the idea that the good die young. But his main argument was that death for a Christian means "to be changed and reformed to the image of Christ and to the dignity of heavenly grace...
...them, confides in them, and shrugs to them. They understand her; they are akin to her. Meanwhile, Miss Plowright states Jo's accusations with impish humor; the audience laughs as they listen to her. Jo literally takes her mother to task for "ruining her life;" but her statement of sorrow, of being orphaned is made in such a childlike, inoffensive manner that its impact is not felt until the conclusion. Here the depths of Jo's anguish and the great meaning of her being alone and pregnant is driven home. Only at the end do lines humorously snapped off, such...
...girl was one of a mass of Cubans who crowded into Havana's Plaza Civica last summer to cheer Fidel Castro and shout hatred of the U.S. Hers was one of many memorable faces-faces of hate, sorrow, bewilderment-that dominated a new, hour-long documentary seen on ABC-TV last week. Billed as a "film editorial," it was designed to give viewers a look at the dangerous anti-American passions mounting throughout Latin America in the vacuum of U.S. policy...
...readers of TIME should be very grateful for your perceptive and courageous article on "The Death Industry." I am reminded with real sorrow of the thousands of our most precious young men who died and were buried in alien lands with no better than an Army blanket to wrap them in. Why are we so much better than they, or have a better future, because we lie in moisture-proof vaults in mahogany caskets...
...fact, as Schwartzwalder discovered to his sorrow this season, the main weakness of burly Syracuse is mental. "I want a team to go into a game ready to hit and be alert mentally, rather than all fired up and ready to make a lot of mistakes," he says. "It's mistakes that lose ball games." If the players are really ready for battle, they leave some steak on their plates the morning of a game. Says Coach Ben Schwartzwalder: "My dog can get a good hoggin' on gameday leftovers...