Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another colleague tells the congregation that Jonathan believed "no student should get a free ride." He could be playful with them because he took them seriously. That is what touches the depths of their sorrow now. They weep for him and for themselves. Maybe they wonder if he dreamed it all up, if they are in fact as valuable as he found them. These kids are used to disappointment and desertion...
...most part, the search for survivors was a heartbreaking one, turning up only bodies and body parts. The passage of time brought burials, sorrow, numbness, the ebbing of hope. In the end, it seemed as if the resolve to rebuild was rekindled only because there was little else left...
...agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m.," Iyer notes, "the pleasure of these letters is that they have all the rude vitality of the man who was not yet a myth...
...last piece was one of Alvin Ailey's acknowledged masterpieces, "Revelations," which Ailey created in 1960. The piece is a combination of his inspirational memories of Texas--the blues, gospel, and spirituals--and it reflects both the joy and sorrow of the human spirit. Divided into three separate sections, Pilgrim of Sorrow, Take me to the Water and Move, Members, Move, each section reflected a different aspect of the soul...
...share the sorrow of the Herzog family and the entire State of Israel. --Miriam B. Goldstein...