Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no bitterness in Worthy's voice, no haughty or arrogant satisfaction that time proved him correct; rather, there is an underlying sense of sorrow over the actions and policies of an American homeland he has difficulty identifying with after his persecution and prosecution by its federal government in the 1960s...
...lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years as a ringleader in the original Watergate breakin. The last of the seven Watergate burglars still incarcerated, Liddy has steadfastly refused to talk about the conspiracy, or to show, in John Sirica's words, "even a hint of contrition or sorrow." Nonetheless, President Carter last week decided "in the interest of equity and fairness" to commute the silent conspirator's sentence to eight years. He will thus be eligible for parole from the Allenwood, Pa., federal penitentiary next July. Liddy characteristically said nothing at the news, but his lawyer said...
...imagine what he could not experience," says Fischer-Dieskau. "That is why he loved poets above all others." The popular image of Schubert is of a genial, easy-going sort who hardly realized his own worth. In fact, "the texts of his songs hint at the bitterness within him ... Sorrow and happiness, humility and arrogance, modesty and pride, contemplation and passion speak to us out of the music...
...When the American Bible Society issued its homespun Good News Bible translation (TIME, Dec. 6), some critics responded in sorrow. Championing the King James Version, the Philadelphia Inquirer stated that "Good News is bad news, in terms of poetry, of grace, of charm and thus of beauty." Many readers apparently disagree. In three months the new version has sold 1.5 million copies...
...play as teeming with "intensely languid" people). Stricken with grief at the age of 26 when both his mother and his first wife die on the same day, Roosevelt abandons a budding career in New York politics and heads to the Dakotas, but he finally grapples with his sorrow and returns to the East the following year. These two triumphs constitute the dramatic highlights of the first act, and Alden effectively intersperses them with marvelous anecdotes of Roosevelt's early career and hilarious scenes of a harried President Roosevelt trying to conduct affairs of state by telephone while "pillow-fighting...