Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America is renowned as a society of leisure pursuits with the time to indulge in them. But if there is anything old people have learned?often to their sorrow ?leisure is not enough. "Work is life" is an equation that was defined by philosophers and intuited by all human beings long before the work ethic was invented...
There must have been moments when I felt the sorrows of a motherless child, but what I most remember from my youngest days was an abiding sense of comfort and security. I got plenty of mothering, not only from Pop and my brothers and sister when they were home, but from the whole of our close-knit community...if I were to try to put down the names of all the folks who helped to raise me, it would read like a roster of Negro Princeton... Hard-working people, and poor, most of them, in worldly goods--but how rich...
...They were arrested en masse without incident. Other protest meetings were scheduled for this week. In the black township of Soweto, where 24,000 high school pupils have been protesting discriminatory education by refusing to register for the coming term, one student said of Biko's death: "The sorrow is still with us. The anger will come later...
Simple Dreams has more of a blues feeling than any other Ronstadt album. The mood is over-whelmingly downbeat, despite the occasional rock tunes. The lyrics, as in "Sorrow Lives Here," largely reflect the lonely-woman-of-the-world image that Ronstadt has always projected...
...Sorrow lives here in my heart...