Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...England Young Soloists' Competition) as the dreaded "Queen of the Night" definitely provided the headiest and most musical highpoints of last Thursday night's production. Her first act "Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren" (Fate hath decreed me doomed to suffer) aria was sung with soulful pathos and true heartfelt sorrow as she lamented her lost daughter Pamina's fate...
Condolences poured into Stockholm from all over the world, with many noting the irony that a man so devoted to peace and nonviolence could be assaulted in anger. President Ronald Reagan expressed his "great shock" and "sorrow in the face of this senseless act of violence." Said British Labor Party Spokesman George Foulkes: "It is an absolute tragedy. He was a very good man, a very peace-loving...
Intended to "raise the people's consciousness of the covert war that the U.S. is waging against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua," the "Crosses of Sorrow and Hope" bear the names of those killed in Nicaragua by the Contras, said Karen L. Wood, a student at the Divinity School...
...Vatican, Pope John Paul II asked an audience of thousands to pray for the American astronauts. He said that the tragedy had "provoked deep sorrow in my soul." In Buenos Aires, Cartoonist Dobal used his space in the Clarin to write, "I can't give you a joke because, dear reader, all my space is filled with infinite pain." Japan's public TV extended its popular 45- minute evening news program to an hour and devoted it all to the space accident. The Jerusalem Post noted editorially that "Americans take their risks in front of grandstands and television cameras...
...there was an accident, when will they come back?" Concord, nestled by New Hampshire's Merrimack River, is one of the nation's smallest state capitals (pop. 30,400). Linked like the rest of the world by the searing television images, the whole city seemed to stiffen in sorrow. Said Pharmacy Clerk Timothy Shurtleff: "People froze in their tracks." A local radio station began playing mourning music. "It's like part of the family has been killed," said Barbara Underwood, who had been watching at the library. The townspeople were not alone. The vivacious McAuliffe had come to embody each...