Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the Cultural Revolution, but the decade-long upheaval that ended in 1976 with Mao Tse-tung's death was a time of sorrow and hardship for China's scholars. Roughneck Red Guards took over classroom and campus; universities were shut down. Academic standards sank to scandalously low levels. Eminent teachers and scientists were sent off to the countryside for "re-education," to work as farm hands and laborers. Science came virtually to a standstill...
...show, a fight between the artist Paul Gauguin and Van Gogh prompts Van Gogh to slice off his ear, not sorrow over a unsuccessful love affair, another popular myth...
...Sorrow and the Pity...
...misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead of to another southern continent, was that on the contrary, it was not a clean slate, not neutral ground. The myth of blackness, darkness, this 'land of sorrow,' might be a sounding board. 'Before the Congo I was just a mere animal,' Joseph Conrad said...
Retorted a group of eleven Jewish organizations: "It is with sorrow and anger that we note these statements. We cannot work with those who resort to half-truths, lies and bigotry in any guise or from any source. . . We cannot work with those who would succumb to Arab blackmail...