Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeremiah were a favorite text because of their outstanding beauty and emotional depth. In fact, the Lamentation remains a standard church form for use around Good Friday. Jeremiah's sense of suffering captures the appropriate Christian feeling at that time of year: "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." In an age when religion and music were inextricably bound, many of the great masters created vocal settings that rival the text in beauty...
...suddenness, the war burst upon the U.S. all over again. Hué, Danang, Pleiku, Kontum-hearing the names once more is like suffering a relapse of some virulent disease. It is impossible for Americans to regard the flow of refugees and the anguish of the orphans without pangs of sorrow and even outrage. Every image of a bewildered child, of a weeping mother, makes a claim on the conscience. However disastrous the final results, most Americans once sincerely felt that they were aiding these people. Now one cannot escape the obvious question: If the long American presence in Viet...
...only 29, many consider him a sadhu. It is at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, a known place of refuge for distinguished fakirs like Joseph Bueys, who, unlike our own sadhus in India, wears a magnificent fur coat and chants mantras about "revolution" in order to expunge his sorrow for having flown a German airplane 30 years ago. Burden, on the other hand, would appear a familiar figure to us. He is a body artist. He believes in transcending the entanglements of maya by mortifying his flesh. And though, thanks to drought and earthquakes, this has become routine for most...
...entirely complete without this account by the man who operated so long at its stormy center. Larry O'Brien is one of the most decent men in a profession currently held in low esteem; he is also a tough Irishman who has shed more tears in joy and sorrow than ought to be allotted any single lifetime in politics...
James Thurber was particularly eloquent in his praise of these sterling qualities. In Thurber's Dogs, he recalled his poodle: "She could take part in your gaiety and your sorrow; she trembled to your uncertainties and lifted her head at your assurances." Big animals are particularly in demand as protectors...