Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staff James Baker whispered the news of the Soviet pullout to the President as he sat through a luncheon commemorating the 100th birthday of Harry Truman, Reagan merely frowned and murmured, "Oh, no." He said nothing in public for 24 hours, and then took a calculated tone of sorrow rather than anger. Said the President: "It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called...
Faces of the martyrs, each leaning against the other as in old ikons, sorrow slanting their eyes as centuries before. And yet one could tell that a few hours earlier, before the dark set in their eyes, there was compassion in their eyes; before the dark filled their mouths there was hope in every word they uttered. They were young, and they would remain young as the gods had intended...
...changes but the name remains. When they were in New Orleans, the Utah Jazz had a harmonious name, but when they moved west it would have been sensible to change their name to something locally resonant--perhaps to the Utah Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a uniquely felonious appellation. New Orleans sorrow at the loss of their Jazz has been partially ameliorated by the acquisition of the USFL's Breakers, another team whose name made more sense when it was connected to its original city--at least Boston has a seashore...
...helping your peers deal with tragedy. But if you do not at least make the effort, then Harvard students might as well be strangers who happen to live in the same city, rather than a true community of classmates, trying to support one another, particularly in times of sorrow. Jeff Rosen...
...knew that the finger was on me, I was limed by her and would have to struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...