Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew that Troy had fallen, Polymestor murdered the boy and took the gold. Unknown to him, the sea-rotted corpse has drifted to shore and is dumped before Hecuba's gaze. She is past weeping by now. She wants the gift of death, surcease from all sorrow. But she has a priority: vengeance. Before the final curtain, Polymestor lurches forward on all fours, his eye sockets craters of streaming blood. He utters the primal howl that punctuates these plays. It is the moment when all reason has toppled and the dogs of fate rend man with total indifference...
Most of the available funds-around $325,000-will be spent on TV and radio advertising in New England. Some of the ads will try to deal with Chappaquiddick. After his Monday speech, Kennedy appeared on New England television to express fervently his sorrow over the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Said he: "I know there are people who will never believe me, no matter what I say. I do ask you to judge me by the basic American standard of fairness, not on the basis of gossip and speculation...
...potentially explosive situation. The city has many difficult issues to talk out in the months ahead; the most important is its commitment to meaningful racial integration of all city schools. But the spirit and the strength shown over the past week suggest that meaningful change may come from a sorrow shared by the city...
Private First Class Paul Compella's parents still live in Torrington, Conn., and when they go past the school gym named for their son who was killed in Kien Hoa province, Viet Nam, March 14, 1968, they are burdened each time with a prideful sorrow. Paul's bronze star was melted into the plaque underneath the press box. The parents think about the world. "This is not Viet Nam," says Carmine Compella. "You see the hardware the Russians put into Afghanistan? They are after that oil. We'd have a reason if we fought this...
...Sorrow and the Pity (1972). Marcel Ophuls re-examines the ambiguous moral dilemmas of the World War II era in this searing documentary about Occupied France...