Word: sorrowful
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Magda Denes' In Necessity and Sorrow is an intimate study of abortion through the words and thoughts of women who have considered and experienced abortion, of their families and friends and of the doctors and other personnel who provide abortion services...
Although Denes favors legalized abortion, In Necessity and Sorrow provides a tacit indictment of the practice. The material gathered inclucates in the reader the distressing impression that abortion by any other name would be murder. Yet, on a more intellectual level, it stands as a defense of the right of individuals to control and exercise responsibility over their bodies...
...Society is slowly accepting it, but it is doing so with too narrow a perspective. The question of the morality of abortion cannot be separated from an inquiry into and attempt to deal positively with the spectrum of circumstances which necessitate abortion and with its consequences. In Necessity and Sorrow is remarkable because it acknowledges the essential complexity of human life...
...rare blend of sweetness and power. The Brahms Requiem seemed cut from velvet rather than the usual broadcloth. Karajan's reading was a subdued rumination, a realization of the deeply personal utterance the composer drew from the Lutheran Bible. In the elegiac "And ye now therefore have sorrow," Soprano Leontyne Price seemed to distill grief and comfort into a burnished flow of melody...
Left and right we have scattered dreams, love, pain and sorrow...