Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joyce Carol Outes: If the Princeton Creative Writing Department's own book-of-the-week-club wins, I'll be drowning my sorrow in methyl alcohol. James Wolcoff of Harper's (and The Village Voice and New York Magazine and Esquire and the New York Review of Books...) called her last book "oozesome." Give the medal to Wolcoff Still, her name always pops up this time of year 23-1 on logorrhea in the fifth...
...Begin government in this sordid fiasco are Jews, not Gentiles; Israelis, not the Diaspora. Nor were those assailing the government exclusively members of the Labor opposition. The right-win newspaper Maariv wrote: "This whole affair, which outrages and disgusts, cannot be ended simply by a statement of sorrow. Someone is responsible here and has to take the consequences." And Eitan Haber, military correspondent for the pro-Begin paper Yediot Ahronot claimed: "Government ministers and senior commanders already knew during the hours of Thursday night and Friday morning that a terrible massacre was taking place...and they did not lift...
...counterparts round the world. "You know that you are faced with the same problems and the same frustrations." Companionship at that level of power is special, and he never felt it so deeply as at the time of Anwar Sadat's assassination. "It was not just a sorrow, the sympathy that you have for someone well known," Reagan says. "There was a feeling of personal loss. That was when I first began to realize that there is a bond when you meet these people...
Into the gap between words and actions has fallen many a politician, as two more discovered to their sorrow last week...
Later, as John Paul moved through the streets of Buenos Aires in his Papamovil, an Indian woman knelt at the curb praying, "Let him hear my sorrow. Let God's light breathe life into the fallen." Reflected one young university student on the Pope's message: "I love my country. Our cause is just. But I love God more than the Malvinas." The feeling was mirrored in less religious reactions: crowds that gathered outside the offices of the daily La Nación to read the latest war news did not greet last week's announcements...