Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banks shut down, most buses and trains stopped running, many food stores, closed. Except for the vigil by mourners, Buenos Aires last week came to a standstill in grieving for Juan Domingo Perón. His death at 78 from severe influenza followed by cardiac arrest plunged the nation into sorrow and anxiety over the future of Argentina without Per?...
...film, which will have its New England premier tomorrow, the sarcastic little girl learns to her great sorrow just how right she was in that library: Ethics--in their day-to-day application and not just the textbook variety--are excruciatingly complex. The balance between the demands of personal happiness and the demands of bourgeois propriety is well-neigh impossible to attain. Most people load the scales on the side on propriety. Wedding in Blood is a movie about two people living Thoreauian lives of quiet desperation who choose to throw the scales in the other direction, becoming willing murderers...
...American government in a way that nothing else has in recent years. Replacing Richard Nixon with Gerald Ford wouldn't normally represent an important change--though it might rid the presidency of the petty corruption and vindictiveness that today make it an object for laughter as well as sorrow. But an impeachment trial, with the full presumably cathartic public discussion it would inevitably entail, could help spark a rebirth of democracy and a militance about popular participation in making decisions that hasn't been seen in this country since the New Deal. Nixon is right. It is time to stop...
...American government in a way that nothing else has in recent years. Replacing Richard Nixon with Gerald Ford wouldn't normally represent an important change--though it might rid the presidency of the petty corruption and vindictiveness that today make it an object for laughter as well as sorrow. But an impeachment trial, with the full presumably cathartic public discussion it would inevitably entail, could help spark a rebirth of democracy and a militance about popular participation in making decisions that hasn't been seen in this country since the New Deal. Nixon is right. It is time to stop...
From his own point of view, Hutchinson was neither of these and his exile from a hostile Massachusetts caused him deep sorrow. "Nothing can be more polite than my entertainment," he wrote of life at an English country estate...