Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alhough a few reporters were aware of the unusual activity at the White House, the secret held until the Government's carefully couched announcements were ready. The first, issued at 1 a.m., foreshadowed the tone of sorrow over the deaths but no regrets over the mission's launching that Carter later carried personally to U.S. television viewers in his early morning address...
...last train stop before Lucania, and the last outpost of the civilization that had nurtured Levi. The implication of the title is that despite the primitive religiosity of the culture that lay beyond Eboli, even the Saviour would have stopped before entering a realm "hedged in by custom and sorrow . . . without comfort or solace." What Levi -played with patient sympathy and intelligence by Gian Maria Volonte - finds in Lucania is a drunken priest who is sometimes stoned by the village children, a bombastic mayor with the habit of summoning everyone to the town square to hear his empty Fascist orations...
...cosmology; three vast galactic empires (two benign, one evil) and mysterious universal harmonies that, when slightly untuned, wrecked life on Shikasta. a small planet suspiciously similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...
...edge of her bed, eyes cast downward. Though she spoke evenly and matter-of-factly, her eyes murmured a deeper sorrow, deeper than her words, deeper than a child of 13 must usually bear...
Crimson captain Mike Desaulniers, however, captured the "A" division laurels to cap off his brilliant career. Desaulniers compiled an undefeated record over his four years as Harvard's resident squash ace. His parting will breed sweet sorrow...