Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretend that each time a GI or a Vietnamese dies, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that had died. By now over a million Vietnamese have died and probably eighty thousand Americans. All of America could not begin to digest that much sorrow... We are left with the freedom, and also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity of fighting American Aggression. They accept the necessity as valid and meaningful. They...
World Reborn. This week Steven Riskin will preside at the festival he loves most: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which he calls the Day of Forgiveness. He is determined that his congregation shall find it not a day of sorrow but one of "total catharsis," when man can once again be completely free from sin, an innocent in a world reborn. "God loves us no matter how guilty we are," the rabbi reminded his congregation at a special midnight service in preparation for the High Holy Days. "He will stretch His arms out to us if only we will...
...present sorrow...
...works at a book about Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. In Powell, no such detail is ever incidental, and indeed, most of this novel's characters are pervaded by melancholy-in a Burtonian sense of the word-being in the grip of some disabling passion such as sorrow, fear or especially love. Powell's intricate music is still scored for a faintly ridiculous comic dance, but as it launches into the final movement there is a crescendo of grave, dark chords of mortality...
...York Giants. For decades the very name was one for opponents in two sports to reckon with, a source of joy (and sometimes sorrow) to New York's football and baseball fans. Who can forget the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning home run in the old Polo Grounds beat the hated Dodgers in a 1951 play-off and won for the baseball Giants an impossible pennant? Or the frigid December day in 1934 when the football Giants, playing on a frozen field, switched from spikes to sneakers at halftime...