Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SORROW AND THE PITY
...Adam's rib. Eve succumbed to the temptation of the serpent, and Adam in turn capitulated to her. "The woman you gave me," he was soon grousing to God. "She gave me the fruit." Ever after, Scripture notes with a certain masculine piety, women would bear children in sorrow and pain, and their husbands would be their masters...
ANGOLA, a land as full of sorrow as any on earth, has been at war with the Portugese colonialists for nearly 500 years. In the last month the struggle of the Angolese people for their independence has been linked to Harvard's investment in Gulf Oil Company. This summary of the history of Portugal's colonialism and Gulf's neocolonialism is an attempt to clarify some of the background to the investment decision. My account is wholly derived from the research of others, and has been compiled from four principal sources: Race to Power: The Struggle for Southern Africa, written...
...grimy train compartment with as much artistic respect as the baroque splendor of the castle's interior, De Sica lingers over flowerbeds choked with weeds, the crumbling bricks in a wall, the ramshackle remains of garden furniture. As the elegy in the background rises to its fullest intensity of sorrow, his ramble through dilapidation seems to stray upwards until brought to a halt before the wire fences of the concentration camps listed in the song. But as the wandering glance draws closer to this stronghold of destruction, the barracks and chimneys behind the mesh fail to materialize. We are still...
...patience for the triumph of the insulted man," Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel-prizewinning Bengali poet, once wrote. Triumph he had, but at a terrible price. With the subcontinent at war, and the newborn land still wracked by bone-shattering poverty, the joy in Bangladesh was necessarily tempered by sorrow...