Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well; the enemy is tiring; if only we persist in the present course, there will be victory." Continued McGovern: "The new Commander in Chief must grasp what his predecessor learned to his sorrow-that in any continuance of the war in Viet Nam lies the seed of national tragedy and the certainty of personal political disaster...
Psalm Readings. Israel, however, was overnight less preoccupied with external anger than with internal sorrow. Only a few of Premier Levi Eshkol's closest associates knew that he had suffered a heart attack last month and offered to resign. Persuaded to stay on, he relinquished much of his detailed, day-to-day work to Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. On the day before his death, Eshkol seemed unusually ebullient for a convalescent, a fact that troubled Allon, who recalled that his own father had been in especially high spirits just before he died. Eshkol scheduled a ministerial committee meeting...
...which is pure rock, is right nearly all the time. This instant impact that rock 'n' roll has is due in part to the fact that it hits the listener at that deep level at which he stores his reservoir of the basic emotions of man: sorrow and delight, sexuality and violence. Being always present these responses are easily aroused. In part also rock 'n' roll owes its profound charge to the form itself: the typical rock song (and this applies even to a masterpiece like "Satisfaction") is internally compact in lyrics message, and overall feel, rigidly prescribed within...
...sharp and accurate novel of the innocent gaiety of the paisanos in Monterey, he wrote: "When you speak of Danny's house, you are understood to mean a unit of which the parts are men, from which came sweetness and joy, philanthropy and, in the end, a mystic sorrow. For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights." In 1952's East of Eden, the Biblical parallels of Cain and Abel are so relentlessly stenciled upon the plot that symbolized meaning threatens to overwhelm the narrative...
...Enemy Within. Store owners have also learned to their sorrow that the enemy is within as well as without. V. W. Green, security chief for Foley's department store in Houston, notes that many shoplifters take temporary pre-Christmas jobs in stores for the express purpose of supplying their personal needs free. "The employee has a lot more chances to steal," Green says. "He's here 40 hours a week; he's probably not watched as closely as the prospective shoplifter in the aisles, and it's easier for him to get away with...