Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S photographs of Solzhenitsyn [Feb. 11] disclose a face like those icons of old Russian saints: full of sorrow, pity and love, but beneath that a vein of iron, a burning conviction and vast inner resources. The Soviet government will exhaust itself in trying to break his spirit...
...remarkable open letter, obviously written more in sorrow than in anger, may well be Solzhenitsyn's farewell message to the Politburo. It reveals Russia's greatest writer as an uncomfortable and uncompromising prophet, a utopian conservative who fears for the future of his beloved country as much as he hates what the Soviet system has done to its past. English-language publication rights have been given to Index, a London-based magazine devoted to one of Solzhenitsyn's favorite causes, the abolition of censorship. Excerpts...
...times in the past four years, I have had difficulty reconciling my comfortable presence at Harvard with the continuing sorrow elsewhere on our planet. I was conscious somewhat of my obligations to the rest of the world, yet I read books and wrote articles while some of our brothers and sisters screamed and died. I strained to keep up my connections with the world outside Harvard; I returned to my Chicago neighborhood to organize with the people I had left behind and to distill some common meaning from the diverging patterns of our lives. Yet I still could not shake...
...Yorker was a single poem by Mark Strand called "The Room." It describes a place much like that waiting-room: antiseptic, empty, bereft of any outward emotion, full of silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace images amid stark, unencumbered language, but the effect is different, more diffuse...
...this year, even though they have become harder to sell. A resurgence cannot be ruled out either. City planners, traffic experts, sociologists and environmentalists may rejoice in the big car's difficulties. But surely the majority of drivers who are turning away from it are doing so more in sorrow than in anger, and would gladly turn back if costs permitted...