Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the garbage in downtown Santiago, looking for something to eat; Chile is 20-year-old Clara with her broad smile, who matter-of-factly told me that "about 50" of her friends were killed or disappeared in the coup; Chile is a ruined dream, a land drenched in sorrow and quivering with fear and desperation...
Whether Bobby Sarnoff was pushed from the job or left on his own, the fact remains that his parting was more than sweet sorrow. TIME has learned that as of Jan. 1, 1976-the day after his resignation took effect-Sarnoff became a consultant to RCA at an annual retainer of $75,000. His new contract runs for ten years. The company's explanation is that Sarnoff s advice is needed by RCA on matters with which he is familiar "by reason of his former employment." The company's gesture seems to be a "golden handshake," a generous...
After years of shock and sorrow over the decline of morals and decency in our country, I thought I had become shockproof . . . Can you believe it: complete color films of sexual acts between women and men, including homosexual acts, using your children. Unless you and I act today . . . our children and our children's children will be exposed to perversion so sinister that good will become evil and evil will become good...
...this continent, traveling forgotten trails...talking to the old and the young, looking for my country, my American land, spying it out as an intelligencer would, trying to find where it has been, where it has come, where it is going after two hundred years of success and sorrow. "...I have roved the world and I have roved my own country. I have seen it...in a lifetime of reporting, but never all of it, never as a whole, never as one America, the nation-continent of the world...
...Hermes did not find great-hearted Odysseus indoors, but he was sitting out on the beach, crying, as before now he had done, breaking his heart in tears, lamentation, and sorrow, as weeping tears he looked out over the barren water...